From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make snapshots of Emacs available Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:51:08 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16156.21052.73298.311691@nick.uklinux.net> References: <16151.64898.973485.566624@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058824633 26180 80.91.224.249 (21 Jul 2003 21:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 23:57:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19eidn-0006iy-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:56:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19eiud-0006uJ-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:13:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19eiTk-0007Wf-L7 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ehxz-00068T-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ehxq-00062B-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from bts-0566.dialup.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.50.54] helo=nick.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ehh7-0001KM-PP; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 74E1D75FDE; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:51:08 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15663 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15663 > I realise that RedHat may have more bandwidth resources that the FSF > and that its probably most efficient to use CVS directly. However, one > advantage of doing this would be that a copy of what's in the CVS > repository becomes available to Emacs users who are behind company > firewalls. > > If someone wants to do it, I don't mind. I don't have any time > to spend thinking about it. I presume that its an automated process (a cron job?) on sources.redhat.com. Can the savannah hackers set up something like this? I'm guessing that savannah.gnu.org, ftp.gnu.org and alpha.gnu.org sit next to each other somewhere in Boston and might even share the same disk space. However, if no-one wants to to do it, then I will, as a last resort. I guess I would need a shell account, and it would have to wait till I have a broadband connection. > I therefore suggest that a daily, weekly or monthly snapshot of > Emacs be put on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs > > alpha.gnu.org is a better place since these are not stable releases. > > That's correct. alpha.gnu.org might be the correct place (Just as info-gnu-emacs, which no-one reads, is the correct place to announce new releases.) but I'm not sure its the best place. Few people know about. Neither the Emacs homepage or the project page on Savannah mention it. I imagine far more people download from ftp.gnu.org or one of its mirrors. Nick