[tex-live] hdd space (was: TL2004: Technical problems and testing)
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Mon May 10 09:57:16 CEST 2004
At 18:12 08/05/2004, Martin Schröder wrote:
>On 2004-05-06 21:07:49 -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> > As is well known, uk-ctan does not currently have the disk space to
> > store any TL test images, and I doubt all the mirrors would want many
> > gigabytes of test images either. So I don't think it can be distributed
> > via the regular CTAN mechanisms.
>
>I didn't know that. But hdd space is cheap nowadays; surely adding
>another disc is possible? We were more concerned with transfer
>volume.
Wasn't harrald going to look into this? He saw some options to use
repositories at locations where that amount of trafic (downloading iso's)
would be consdered noise ...
Hans
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