I don't feel strongly about this one way or the other, but one additional piece of information is that sourceforge does have compile farm facilities that might allow Ivan to build much faster than for his current hardware. Sourceforge also has pretty good bandwidth so transmitting the debs to other sites with good bandwidth would be a snap. The only bandwidth downside is that Ivan would have to download the debs to his site for testing over his 56kbs connection.
My apologies for posting late on this, but I have been out of e-mail contact for the last 5 days. Alan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, total wrote: > After having seen the following: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0010/msg03670.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0011/msg00003.html > http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/1127/6614278a.html > > and of course the posts from Ivan detailing progress on getting KDE > packaged, the thought occurred to me that it might be helpful to have a > compile farm for building KDE. Reduce the design, compile, test time by > a factor of 10 maybe. > > Is that realistic? Would it be beneficial? > > Someone out there benefiting from kde must have a load of workstations > they could configure to allow a developer to do compiles on. Maybe even > have 1 dedicated machine that could install then run the packaged KDE > system & export the X display over the internet to the developers > workstation, so the developer doesn't have to even dl the results across > the net. > > (Maybe use vnc? > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ ) > > I also recall reading that compiling sun's star office takes 10, or 10's > of hours. Maybe the farm could be used for a number of projects. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
