Lpc2000

arghhh... has no one heard of bittorrent <http://bittorrent.com>?

On 3/20/06, Dominic Rath <Dominic.Rath@...> wrote:
>
>  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
>
>
>
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