Wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0

ruby-talk
1

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

						matz.
2

I’ll host one if you wish.

Hal

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----- Original Message -----
From: “Yukihiro Matsumoto” matz@ruby-lang.org
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

3

I can mirror.

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:38:53 +0900 matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

  					matz.

–
Seth Kurtzberg
Research, Development, and Network Operations Center
ISEC.us
480-314-1540
seth@isec.us

4

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

  					matz.

Is the list of mirrors at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020102.html not
enough?

Gavin

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Yukihiro Matsumoto matz@ruby-lang.org wrote:

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

I have several machines on which I could do it. How much disk space does it
require?

Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/ITM -=- roberto@eurocontrol.fr
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6

I’m sorry that I can’t offer to host a mirror, but all I’ve got is my
workstation on a 256k connection. :frowning:
But I can suggest to you, that you perhaps contact sunsite.dk, they’re hosting
numerous mirrors.
It’s a server located at “Aalborg Universitets Center” AUC.
I think you’ll have a fair chance of getting a good mirror up and running
there.

Best regards.
/Madsen (who is looking forwarf to the final 1.8 release.)

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:38:53 +0900 matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

–

               Anders K. Madsen 

               http://lillesvin.linux.dk                 |

There are 10 types of people in the world… |
Those who understand binary - and those who don’t.
- http://bash.org |

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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

  					matz.

We can put one on the rubygarden.org/rubycentral.org server. Just let
me know what to do.

Chad

8

We can place it on RubyForge as well.

-rich

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On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 02:38 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

  					matz.
9

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Hello,

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

Since we don’t make any money out of Ruby itself, we don’t have any
excuse to any network trouble caused by Ruby.

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

I can put it on ruby-doc.org

James Britt

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  					matz.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: [Thu Jul 31 2003, 02:38:53AM EDT]

Numerous downloads of recent previews have eaten up my company’s
bandwidth some times. When 1.8.0 final is out, I guess the situation
will be far worse.

I’ve changed the Gentoo Linux ruby ebuilds to use the mirror list in
preference to the master server. Most of the time users would get it
from a Gentoo mirror anyway, but in the case that the Gentoo mirrors
don’t have the source yet, this change might help.

Aron

11

Hello,

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In message “Re: wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0” on 03/07/31, “Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com writes:

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

I’ll host one if you wish.

Thank you. I will talk to you later.

Others?

						matz.
12

I never got that far down the page - when you stick a great big link at the
top of the page under “How to get Ruby”, pointing directly at the home site,
that’s what I’ve used.

Hide the home site links away at the bottom somewhere and I think people are
more likely to use the mirrors.

Cheers,

Brian.

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:07:29PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

  					matz.

Is the list of mirrors at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020102.html not
enough?

13

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

I’ll host one if you wish.
Me, too.

What do I need todo to set up a mirror?

14

Hi,

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In message “Re: wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0” on 03/07/31, Ollivier Robert roberto@REMOVETHIS.eu.org writes:

I have several machines on which I could do it. How much disk space does it
require?

Not much. Only 1.8M.

						matz.
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Yes, i would be pleased to.

buggs

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Hello,

In message “Re: wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0” > on 03/07/31, “Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com writes:

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

I’ll host one if you wish.

Thank you. I will talk to you later.

Others?

–
Wilfried Grommen, Strategie-Chef für Microsoft EMEA, Juli 2003:
“Die Welt besteht nicht nur aus Open Source und Linux.
Das müssen wir wohl erstmal klarstellen.”

16

I can offer a server to mirror on.

Tuan

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

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Hello,

In message “Re: wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0” > on 03/07/31, “Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com writes:

Thus, would anybody offer mirrors for 1.8.0?
They will help us a lot.

I’ll host one if you wish.

Thank you. I will talk to you later.

Others?

  					matz.
17

Sure. I can mirror on a few machines.

_why

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On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:50 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Others?

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In article 1059671918.309820.3858.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp,

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Yukihiro Matsumoto matz@ruby-lang.org wrote:

I have several machines on which I could do it. How much disk space does it
require?

Not much. Only 1.8M.

Oh, only for the distfile? I can do it of course, on all these
machines. One is on the french research network (RENATER), one is in a
well connected ISP in France and the last one is also well connected.

Please use the address in my From: (it works) for details if you want.

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I can mirror also (up to 700 MB per day).

Regards,

Mark

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Others?

Sure. I can mirror on a few machines.

Nobody answered the question that I think Gavin raised - there is already a
big pool of official mirrors, and the ones I’ve looked at have everything up
to and including 1.8.0-preview6

That’s from the “Download Ruby” link at Ruby Programming Language,
pointing at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020102.html

I think the only thing which is necessary is to give the mirrors more
prominence and make ftp.ruby-lang.org less prominent… if it’s the first
link on the page then that’s what people will click.

Cheers,

Brian.