size of release sets (was Re: [Clipart] Open Clip Art Library - Release 0.06)

[Jon Phillips]

However, we have to remember that we are a nonstandard OSS project in
that we offer constantly change/updating content. Normal OSS projects
release stable builds as releases, but our up-to-the minute repository
is probably the more preferred method for disseminating content. Thus,
ways we and make packages on the fly would be very useful. See the
microsoft clip art website to see a great example of how to deal with
packaging/baskets for clipsrt.

Jon


On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:03, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > > When will the project begin splitting it up into separate tar balls?
> > >
> > > Maybe whenever there is around 10MB to split out?
> >
> > We've talked about having some form of custom dynamic tarball generation
> > for people looking for specific sets of clip art.  Of course, that
> > capability is kind of complicated, and so is predicated on having a
> > backend document management system that can present these dynamic
> > "views" of the data.  This "DMS" is the next thing in the plan to focus
> > on.
> 
> When I get a spare few minutes, I plan to package up the 0.06 release for
> pkgsrc (used by NetBSD and others).
> 
> It would be useful in the future if there were premade tarballs so to save
> time downloading (and to use less resources on the download server) and so
> the checksums for the files are consistent.
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
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