Lpc2000

Hello,

I doubt that anyone is willing to host a 198MB download, especially not if 
this is going to get popular. IIRC even GNUARM reported difficulties getting 
money for the bandwidth cost, and the GNUARM packages are "just" 30-60MB.

The usual suspects for hosting free software, like sourceforge, can't be used, 
as the package includes proprietary software with licenses incompatible to 
SF.

Someone at the GNUARM mailinglist suggested using P2P to spread the download 
package, and though I like the idea I'm not sure if it's going to work out. 
It definitely would require a lot of discipline among the downloaders, 
keeping it available for some time.

Honstely, I'm having problems seeing the necessity of such a download package, 
or at least not for all of the included files (convenience doesn't count for 
me, seeing the problems of getting the file distributed):

> ARM Cross Development with Eclipse Revision 4 Draft.doc (draft tutorial)
> ARM Cross Development with Eclipse version 3.pdf (tutorial)
These should be there, agreed.

> bu-2.16.1_gcc-4.0.2-c-c++_nl-1.14.0_gi-6.4.exe (GNUARM)
GNUARM makes for a large part of the download, and several older versions are 
still available at the site. I think having the community doubling the effort 
of providing these files is not necessary.

> eclipse-SDK-3.1-win32.zip (Eclipse 3.1)
Eclipse has every stable release since 3.0 easily accessible.

> embeddedcdt-20050810.zip (Zylin CDT)
> zylincdt-20050810/zip (Zylin CDT)
Until Zylin archives these, they should be included.

> hwsupport-2.16.exe (OCDRemote)
I'd say forget about OCDRemote, but guess I'm biased (so count this as a 
joke).

> jre-1_5_0_06-windows-i586-p.exe (JAVA)
Most people probably have one, and those that don't can easily get one from 
SUN.

> openocd.zip (OpenOCD)
Tell me which one you're basing the tutorial on, and I'll make sure it stays 
in the files section. If you've added anything (haven't downloaded the 198mb 
pack), I can put the zip into files, too.

> philips_flash_utility.zip (flash programmer)
With the trouble people have finding stuff on the Philips site, I agree, this 
should be included.

> SourceCode.zip (sample code)
This of course, too.

If those parts that are fairly stable and easy to get were removed, the 
download size would drop to about 50mb, maybe less.

Kind regards,

Dominic Rath