The Sourceware CD

Benjamin Kosnik bkoz@cygnus.com
Wed Jun 9 00:10:00 GMT 1999


> I downloaded the bzip2 web page and prebuilt binaries and included them on
> the CD.  I wrote a quick little README when I realized that the snapshot I
> was creating was the only thing on the CD.  I plan on spending an evening
> putting together some decent HTML introductory material for future CDs.

I was thinking about this, randomly, the other day. I think
(uncompressed) HTML is the way to go--what material were you thinking of
writing up?

> There will be a new sourceware CD every three months.  I don't know
> what the content of the future volumes will be.  I'm of the opinion that
> people will want a comprehensive dump of the ftp site (which would mean
> we'd have to move to a 2-CD package in the future); spetry thinks that
> we should focus on just new things.  We're going to discuss this some
> more and revisit this point when the time gets closer for the next volume.

Can you give a one or two weeks heads up before the next CD gets pressed?

Thanks,
Benjamin



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