Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:05:01 +0200 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49P%2BOqCNYCZYdhE1Wu4coHmH0z%2BcJMAJVxNvTMybfBgas-Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130528000505.6c506b1a@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> <20130527140609.3d3b9d23@gumby.homeunix.com> <444ndofstn.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20130527153440.020ab20e@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3798C.9000004@marino.st> <20130527173633.0e196a08@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A38D87.8070102@marino.st> <20130527183620.5ff9d8b0@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3A813.1060908@marino.st> <20130527210924.36432f32@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3C331.901@marino.st> <20130528000505.6c506b1a@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:05 AM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2013 22:33:53 +0200 > John Marino wrote: > >> On 5/27/2013 22:09, RW wrote: >> > On Mon, 27 May 2013 20:38:11 +0200 >> > John Marino wrote: >> > >> > >> > No, that's something you just made up. It is however vague and >> > anecdotal. We have only one data point that we know is from this >> > year and not self-inflicted, even if the others are, for all we >> > know it could still be fast most of the time. >> > >> > Some monitoring would be useful. >> > >> >> However you slice it, a distinfo file with 1000+ entries is >> completely absurd. 95% of the blame goes to Vim developers. >> However, it is within the realm of feasibility to pre-package patches >> in batches of 100 (or conversely 1 tarball of patches rolled for >> every time patch count hits multiple of 100). > > In other words downloading every patch twice. > As a side note: Patches 100-199 (as an example) are 600KB, while a tar.xz of them is 115KB. Data-wise, it's closer to "downloading each patch 1.2 times". -- Daniel "let's poke the fresh paint on this bikeshed" Nebdal
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