[31752] distfiles

[Blair Zajac]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 19:17, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 16:47, takanori at macports.org wrote:
>>>> Revision: 31752
>>>>           http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/31752
>>>> Author:   takanori at macports.org
>>>> Date:     2007-12-05 14:46:57 -0800 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007)
>>>>
>>>> Log Message:
>>>> -----------
>>>> Add distfile for octave.
>>>>
>>>> Added Paths:
>>>> -----------
>>>>     distfiles/octave/
>>>>     distfiles/octave/octave-2.9.15.tar.bz2
>>> Why? Just to have an http mirror? Because it's still on the octave 
>>> ftp server, and they've got releases back to 2.9.0, so I don't think 
>>> they're going to remove it any time soon.
>>
>> Some corporations that I know of do not allow any outgoing FTP, so 
>> having an HTTP mirror available is good.
> 
> Right. I was just asking if having an http mirror was the only reason.
> 
> I'm just very wary of having distfiles in our repository at all. They 
> take up so phenomenally more more space than any code we would ever 
> write, and they can "never" be removed from the repository, so I think 
> we should all think at least 5 times before adding distfiles to the 
> repository.

We should have another mechanism then for uploading them and storing them on the 
server.

Blair

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