Re: [htdig-dev] Concerning FTP access / mirroring

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to J. op den Brouw:
> Okay, I'm currently setting up a wget mirror for the "files" section.
> With a dozen or so commands you can make a nice copy of the files
> section. Instructions follow shortly.
> 
> Isn't it better (for mirroring anyway) to put files section into
> a CVS repository? Updating your local copy would be very simple then.
> 
> Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> >
> > No, from the SourceForge site, all we have right now is HTTP acces.
> > FTP access has been completely cut off.  You will need to use HTTP
> > for mirroring.  The files are at http://www.htdig.org/files/

That's a good question.  On the old htdig.org site hosted by Verio,
before the move to SourceForge, we used CVS for everything including the
files section.  I'm not too sure of the exact reasons for moving away
from CVS for files on SourceForge.  (We still use CVS for the source
trees and maindocs, though.)  I know there are some strange quirks with
CVS on SourceForge, so maybe it caused problems with the large binary
files in the files section.  I've also heard that CVS doesn't deal
with binary files all that efficiently (it's hard to "diff" them) so
maybe it was a concern over the amount of repository space we'd use up.
Geoff would probably know better than me, as he's the one who coordinated
the switch to SourceForge.

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