[FFmpeg-devel] 'Full checkout'snapshots

[Michel Bardiaux]

Cian Duffy wrote:
> On 29/05/07, Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at mediaxim.be> wrote:
>> Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:45:35AM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>> If you cant update with svn, what is the use of a snapshot that *might*
>>>> be updated with svn? And if you can update with svn, why download a
>>>> snapshot?
>>> For example that initial checkouts are horribly slow
>> Come on, it takes about 15" on a typical 'family-size' ADSL.
> 
> 
> Not on a slow computer, or slow operating system... I've got 3Mbit FWA and
> svn can't come close to peaking it out when checking out on my older PC.
> 
But if you have a slow system, decompressing the bz2 and untarring will 
be slowed down too.

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