Re: Source code via download -- MPL Alpha 1 Draft Released

On 9/7/2010 8:42 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 20/08/10 01:22, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> You can always offer a download on your own server and cite the URL in
>> the app. All you need to do is guarantee that it stays live (the old MPL
>> even specced how long).
>
> And that was one of its most annoying provisions. When you are doing
> daily builds on 3 platforms in 75 languages, do you have any idea how
> much disk space it requires to keep source available for 6 months?

It's not just three platforms either. It's at least ten including 64-bit 
and mobile platforms. But it's even worse than that. Add in another 5 or 
6 dozen tinderbox and tryserver builds across about 7 platforms per day 
and then it really does start to take up a few bytes of disk.

- A