Re: GUB unofficial release still relevant?

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Lilypond Dev" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: GUB unofficial release still relevant?


> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:14:26PM +0100, Colin Hall wrote:
> > See:
> >
> > http://www.charltonhall.eclipse.co.uk/
> >
> > That's the space I get with my ISP account so bandwidth (cost) might
> > be an issue. Would be nice if someone could mirror it so somewhere
> > more robust/cheaper.
>
> Ok.  Alternately, you could only put up a few binaries (say,
> darwin-x86, mingw, linux-x86, and linux-64).  Also, advertizing it
> on lilypond-user as unofficial binaries will probably get you
> between 10 and 100 downloads in total.  At 20 megs each, that's an
> (estimated) maximum of 2 GB bandwidth.  That's probably ok for a
> residential ISP, but you may want to double-check.
>
> If anybody else wants to chime in and offer hosting, of course
> that would be quite appreciated.


I'm personally not convinced this is worth doing.  However, if we really 
want to do it, I could host it off philholmes.net/lilypond, or a new domain. 
I can set Colin or others up with ftp access if needed.

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Phil Holmes