wouldn't tarball snapshots be nice to have?

[Artemio]

Hello all!

Well, I communitated with KPDF guys on this matter and they said that 
basically it's a web space problem. It's not hard at all to write a script 
that would fetch the sources via SVN and put them on the site (I assume some 
person with a high-speed connection could do this if one cannot ask the 
KDE.org admin to put this kind of script in cron).

Also, I agree with Dirk that once you checked out KDE or some certain app, it 
takes less traffic and time to update it to the latest version via SVN. 
However, for people with dialup or limited/costy ADSL, fetching lots of stuff 
as plain text can be troublesome. E.g. if KDE's bzipped sources take more 
than 100 MB, how much is that uncompressed? Maybe even up to 1 GB I assume.

So maybe it would be cool to have a daily or weekly KDE development snapshot 
auto-checked from SVN and put on the site. It would be easier and somewhat 
more attractive for people to get the bleeding-edge KDE version and start 
testing it.

However, I remember there can be one problem with such an approach. For 
example once I downloaded a CVS checkout tarball of some app which was 
checked out as "anonymous" (of course). But when I tried to use this checkout 
to update the sources while loggen in as a developer, not anonymous, CVS said 
that each file name collides with the one it's about to checkout from the 
server. Is this the same case with SVN? Can a developer download a bzipped 
tarball of an anonymous SVN checkout and then re-login to SVN with his own 
account without having to checkout these very same sources?

Sorry, maybe I started a very stupid topic.


With best wishes,
Artemiy.