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

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:

> 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.

I agree. I should have said we should have premade tarballs "in addition"
to the dynamic downloads.

But I also think that some operating system users would like to have their
native packaging tools provide the clipart.

apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade # and you have new clip art :)

> > 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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