Github and Sourceforge are businesses and that's why they stay around. Without that, well, why not get some resources/space paid by the upcoming "loi 1901 association" in a couple of dedicated servers and set them up with your system? Sven, I am willing to work with you on this, financially included. If Pharo is going to be thriving, an ecosystem has to blossom anyway. I am about to be on holidays in 2 weeks, and you are welcome to come over for a beer and some setup fun! Phil 2012/7/4 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be>
On 04 Jul 2012, at 09:28, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
There must be a business behind all this to take care of the funding and the daily operations.
More than a year ago I did this:
MCHttpRepository location: ' http://mc-mirror.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ZincHTTPComponents/' user: '' password: ''
It is a proof of concept, a (now no longer up to date) copy of a repository DIRECTLY hosted by Amazon S3 (works only for public, read-only repositories). It would not be a lot of work to set up a copy process that keeps the mirror up to date for the top 100 projects or so. I would cost some monthly resources though.
I also did this:
which is a full MC repo (storage only) that is also backed by S3.
Sven
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