From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3700 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc van Dongen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: LaTeX/ConTeXt/metapost repository Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:40:12 +0000 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20001229154012.T17402@cs.ucc.ie> References: <3.0.6.32.20001228225013.0154fd70@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20001228015259.00929310@pop.wxs.nl> <20001227194208.I17402@cs.ucc.ie> <3.0.6.32.20001228015259.00929310@pop.wxs.nl> <20001228153224.Q17402@cs.ucc.ie> <3.0.6.32.20001228225013.0154fd70@pop.wxs.nl> <20001229145140.S17402@cs.ucc.ie> <3.0.6.32.20001229161229.01546100@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394425 19411 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:33:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mailing List Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001229161229.01546100@pop.wxs.nl>; from pragma@wxs.nl on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 04:12:29PM +0100 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3700 Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote: : >I was thinking of distributed storage. People who want : >to can store their stuff at their own site or at a friendly : >site nearby. Updates will be much easier this way. Also the : >problem of bandwidth will be less---should that become a : >problem. The information about what can be found where : >should be centralised. I think this will make it a lot : >easier to maintain the repository by a ``responsible'' : >person. : : The disadvantage of that is that url's are instable, but it can be a valid : starting point Which is why we should devise a mechanism which overcomes the problems related with that fact. E.g. if a contributer decides he wants to move his stuff to a different site, all he should have to do is provide the URL of the new site. Perhaps we should also store everything centralised but make users aware of the fact that more up to date material can be found at different sites. This mechanism will also guarantee that submissions are still around if contributors/urls ``get lots.'' Regards, Marc