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From: Larry Smith
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 18:50
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 18:50
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In article <9205131814.AA19527@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes: >In principle, the FSF could play the role of the source site for this. >In practice, we can't, for two reasons: we don't have enough disk >space to keep old source versions, and we can't undertake the >administrative burden of making these arrangements--it would be too >much trouble if we had to negotiate with a number of sysadmins before >deleting any version of the source. But there are many source archive >sites, and probably several of them will make such arrangements, thus >splitting up the burden. Since the FSF *does* have sites for the latest stuff, I presume therefore that the requirement is still met if the binary is kept completely up-to-date with respect to FSF offerings and references those? >It's better to have five sites and offer source properly through each one >than to have ten sites but with haphazard source access. This seems reasonable, if you have a place to put the binary, compressed source isn't all *that* large. Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com) No, I don't speak for Cabletron. ------------------------------------------------------------- I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a "disgrace", that two are called a "law firm", and that three or more become a "Congress".
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1543162a55080252 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-13 05:57:32 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!balrog!ctron.com From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Binary-only archives Message-ID: <3870@balrog.ctron.com> Date: 13 May 92 18:50:27 GMT References: <9205131814.AA19527@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@balrog.ctron.com Reply-To: smith@ctron.com Distribution: gnu Organization: Cabletron Systems, Inc. Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: glinda