From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T23:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails 1.1 Released -SOLVED

Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:31:55AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> } On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Benjohn Barnes wrote:
> }
> } >On 28 Mar 2006, at 22:40, David Ishmael wrote:
> } >
> } >>Whew, I was running out of ideas.  ;)  Glad it's working now.
> } >
> } >Still seems to be grinding though. I wonder if gems could also be
> } >distributed through bit-torrent, or something?
> }
> } There are better solutions already on the table.  The problem is that
> } the gem index is really big.  It doesn't need to be as big as it is.
> 
> I suspect that most of it doesn't change very often (meaning that the
> amount of change from day to day is pretty small, not that there are 
> large
> pieces that never change). Perhaps rsync would be of use here.
> 
> } Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
> --Greg

The CVS head of rubygems will do incremental downloads of the index 
file.  We are working out the details of testing this on a large site 
like RubyForge.

It's coming. :)

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