I misunderstood ... I thought you were talking about SqueakSource .... Never Mind:)

Dale

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de>
| To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:48:58 AM
| Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Making trunk repo faster
| 
| Hi Dale,
| 
| that's interesting. I wouldn't have expected anyone to use our trunk
| repository as a production host.
| 
| So you are linking to specific filenames in
| http://source.squeak.org/trunk/ ? Do you have an example somewhere?
| 
| - Bert -
| 
| On 23.05.2012, at 19:37, Dale Henrichs wrote:
| 
| > I know that I have projects in production that are using code that
| > is older than 1 year ... it would not be easy for me to scramble
| > and identify all of the old packages, configurations and/or build
| > scripts that would have to be modified if you were to start
| > removing packages from the repository ... the net would be worse
| > than "slow repository" or "down for the weekend repository", but
| > of course the only time I would need the old code is in an
| > emergency...
| > 
| > A repository like love is supposed to be forever:)
| > 
| > A more palatable solution would be to have the active projects move
| > to a different (smaller) project with fewer versions, the older
| > infrequently used projects wouldn't be triggered and the new more
| > active projects wouldn't carry the burden of ancient history
| > around...
| > 
| > My $0.02...
| > 
| > Dale
| > 
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de>
| > | To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
| > | <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| > | Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:28:29 AM
| > | Subject: [squeak-dev] Making trunk repo faster
| > | 
| > | Accessing the repository gets slower and slower due to the ever
| > | increasing number of versions there.
| > | 
| > | To make it faster we could remove old package versions. Say,
| > | everything older than a year (but keep at least one version of
| > | each
| > | package). We could move those to an "attic" repository.
| > | 
| > | Sounds good? Other ideas?
| > | 
| > | - Bert -
| > | 
| > | 
| > | 
| > 
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