From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T00:58:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Migration to RubyForge (was Re: Ruby and RRDTool)

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:50, James Britt wrote:
> David Douthitt wrote:
> > Does anyone have a ruby library or whatever that makes it easy to use RRDTool?
> > 
> > I checked the RAA but the link is bad - just one reason I much prefer a software repository (like ibiblio.org) over a "URL link farm" (like freshmeat.net).  If the RAA had its own software repository the RRDTool script would still be there, no matter what happened to the original author and software....
> 
> I'm sorry I can't answer your question, but I have some of my own 
> (consider this an informal poll):
> 
> What keeps people from putting their stuff in RubyForge?
> 
> Is it overkill for LOC < 10 stuff?
> 
> Are people self-concious about seems-too-alpha  code?
> 
> What would be the logistical|moral|technical issues with having a Ruby 
> code snapshot/time-machine archive, something that would store a copy of 
> any and all Ruby code so that there would always be a copy of it available?

Currently this wouldn't be too difficult:

[root@rubyforge cvs]# du -skH /var/cvs
72MB    /var/cvs
[root@rubyforge cvs]#

And that's before compression.  We could burn a CD of it no problem...

Yours,

tom