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[Herb McNew <herb.mcnew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Karl Fogel wrote:
> > Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > > I think we should remove the people.canonical.com/~herb/ tarball.
> > >
> > > 1) It's of db-devel, not devel. Not what a beginner developer wants.
> > >
> > > 2) It's a standalone tree, not a shared repository plus branch, as is
> > > customary for LP development.
> > >
> > > 3) It's badly affected by early 2a fragmentation, a modern bzr version
> > > packs that repository down from 219MB to 150MB.
> > >
> > > 4) It ships a working tree, if the goal is to minimize download size,
> > > that's counterproductive.
> > >
> > > 5) It's sufficiently out of date at this point that you still have ~25MB
> > > to pull it up to date.
> > >
> > > Alternatively we could rectify all of the above and republish it.
>
>
> > IMHO, we should remove it simply because it will be ongoing complexity
> > if we don't.
>
> Oh, that too :-)
>
> Accordingly I've removed the link from https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting.

Removed from people.u.c/~herb

Best Regards,
Herb