Subject: Re: CVS commit: htdocs/guide/download
To: None <www@netbsd.org, www-changes@netbsd.org>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: www-changes
Date: 12/01/2003 15:00:35
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:29:22PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:07:54PM +0000, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > > 
> > > Module Name:	htdocs
> > > Committed By:	jschauma
> > > Date:		Sun Nov 30 17:07:54 UTC 2003
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > > 	htdocs/guide/download: netbsd-en.ps.gz
> > > Added Files:
> > > 	htdocs/guide/download: netbsd-en.pdf.gz
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Thanks to Hiroki Sato-San, we now can conveniently generate postscript
> > > and pdf output for the guide directly from the xml sources.  So let's
> > > update these.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to distribute them as uncompressed so people
> > can view them directly from the browser?
> 
> Well, they are rather large:
> 
> 772584 netbsd-en.pdf.gz
> 502937 netbsd-en.ps.gz
> 
> 1634876 netbsd-en.pdf
> 3105570 netbsd-en.ps
> 
> Maybe we should have both?  What's the CVS overhead of having large
> files like these under CVS control?

Or place .ps/.pdf files on ftp.netbsd.org? As we don't include
compiled kernels for archs in the source distribution.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>