On Thursday, February 19, 2004, 3:17:31 AM, simon wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 16:35, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> [snip]
>> Understood, but there's no such thing as a platform on which .tgz
>> files can't be unpacked with a modicum of effort. On Windows, if your
>> current WinZip doesn't support .tgz, you can download the latest
>> version (evaluation) for free.
>>
>> The pressure is upload time for me.
> What about sunsite or ibiblio, they host lots of linux stuff. I hope
> they also may host ruby material?
Well, ruby-doc.org is the perfect place for the stdlib docs. Anyone
can host them, fine by me. But they'll have touble keeping up :)
My point is that it takes about 10 minutes for me to upload the ZIP
file, vs about 3 minutes for the tgz. Without seeing a good reason to
continue the ZIP, ...
> Eventually rubyforge?
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The very first alpha docs
were hosted on rubyforge. ruby-doc.org was seen as a step in the
right direction, by me and Tom Copeland. I suppose the tarball could
go there, but then, why bother?
James, I'm sure ruby-doc.org is coping with the download demands? ;)
Cheers,
Gavin
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