On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:52:13PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: >> Tim, have you used VMware before? This should allow you to >> compile LilyPond inside a virtual machine. I'm not certain what >> the best way is to transfer the iso from Jonathan to you, though. > > Once it's ready maybe I can create a torrent? I've never done that > before but it's probably the best way to transfer it.
Torrents are not magic. If you want to get it to Tim, then this will actually result in transfering *more* than the original 853 megs. A torrent would make sense if there were 10 or more people wanting the same iso, provided that they were all going to be online at the same time. I can't imagine us having 10 windows C++ developers, let alone them all wanting to download it at exactly the same time. > I have control of a server in my office at school, but I don't > feel comfortable uploading a gigantic file to it--it's a > mission-critical server handling my online music appreciation > class. Quite understandable. > Probably a torrent is the way to go, or else snail mail. :) I suppose we could do a combination of snail mail + torrent -- that way, Tim would only need to download 153 megs, instead of 853 megs. That's still a lot, though. :( I'm less and less optimistic about this route. Oh, wait -- what happens if you bzip2 the iso? That could potentially save a big chunk. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
