Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] XaraLX-0.7r1717.tar.bz2 disappeared

[Vasil Dimov <vd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> --On 05 September 2006 10:38 +0100 Graeme Robinson <GraemeR@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >The svn route will take longer and use more bandwidth than simply
> >keeping your own copy of what you need.
> 
> Surely not if it does an "svn up", because then it will only download
> the differences (which will normally be none).
> 

True, but this is not the way FreeBSD ports work. A make clean will
wipe out the whole "work" directory which contains the unzipped archive
or svn co'd sources.

Further, users may have limited internet access and it is best to keep
download protocols to the most common www and ftp.

-- 
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv

Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
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