n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) (05/08/91)
I'm almost ready to post my compiled X11R4 distribution for XENIX, but I'm faced with a problem finding an archive site willing to take such a big package (probably around 15 megs compressed). UUNET doesn't take binaries unless there is a demand for them from enough of its customers. I would simply put it up on my own system, but that's about to move and become non-UUCPable, and it has never been FTPable. Anybody out there wanna take it? All this may become moot if I decide to post my own source patches instead of the binaries. Here are the pros and cons of posting source patches: Pros... - source patches are MUCH smaller than complete binaries, hence, archive sites are more willing to take them (because they're small, and because they're sources) - they can be compiled for slightly differing hardware (eg., Trident VGA Hi-Res mode, Chain's code), although most 386 systems will work with my binary configuration Cons... - you'll need a development system (GNU c compiler also needed) to compile X - you'll need to download the X sources (if memory serves, the main tape runs about 35 megs) - it'll take MUCHO disk space to contain both the sources/objects and the binaries, whereas you'll need only (only?) about 40-45 megs to load the binaries and extract them Thoughts? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python
splee@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) (05/09/91)
In article <N025FC.91May8110037@tamuts.tamu.edu> n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) writes: > >I'm almost ready to post my compiled X11R4 distribution for XENIX, but >I'm faced with a problem finding an archive site willing to take such >a big package (probably around 15 megs compressed). UUNET doesn't >take binaries unless there is a demand for them from enough of its Have you tried wuarchive.wustl.edu? They are a huge archive site and will probably take it. Also, I seem to remember that unix.oakland.edu kept a few Xenix binaries. Perhaps they would be interested. Don't give up. There a a lot of Xenix users out there who would like X11R4 (including myself) but just don't have the resources or will to compile it. -- Seng-Poh Lee splee@gnu.ai.mit.edu