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: http://mc.stfx.eu which is a full MC repo (storage only) that is also backed by S3. Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe http://stfx.eu Smalltalk is the Red Pill