From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T01:56:14+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA.succ? (rpkg vs rubynet)

> > > >> I'd definately like to see some central repository that could be
> > > >> mirrored instead of the current model where modules actually live on
> > > >> the contributors server (whether at home or on an ISP) - needless to
> > > >> say, this tends to lead to the disappearance of packages.
> > > >
> > > >Hrm, how about rsync, FTP, or HTTP mirroring?  
> > > 
> > > >I'm actually really keen on CVSup
> > > 
> > > What's CVSup?
> > 
> > http://www.cvsup.org/
> > 
> > CVSup is REALLY REALLY REALLY cool stuff in action.  -sc
>
> Yeah. CVSUp probably is 'THE' way to go. I update my OS and over
> 7000 applications daily through cvsup in a few minutes a day. It
> will be a while before Ruby is near this load.

As a second datapoint I do a full sup of the FreeBSD src, doc, gnats,
and ports in less than 5minutes and on disk, that's over 1.1GB of
space.  'ya can't top that by anything that I'm aware of.  Having
every ruby application available via a simple skeleton build file
would be increadible.  Same for having the precompiled version and
being able to go rubynet --install-module [module_name.crm].  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden