[Python-grants] Re: Picture for Python CD

[Michael McLay]

I've CC'd the Python-grants list on my reply. 

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 7:13 pm, Thomas Waldmann wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> good news: the CD is working! I am doing some last adjustments for the
> first version right now.

I haven't tried building a KNOPPIX distribution. what is the process for 
building the ISO for the CDROM? I assume this is something you are doing on 
your own server at the moment. Can this be done as a collaborative project? 
Would it be practical to assign the installation of individual packages, 
applications and documents to maintainers? Or does this just require 
selecting names to submit to apt-get?  Would using starship.python.net, or 
possibly on one of the new servers that are suppose to be available for 
www.Python.org from XS4ALL be helpful? (I'm still waiting to hear about the 
new python.org systems.) Or would you prefer to keep the work on your system?

> > >   * we need a server to put the iso and some other stuff on. I
> > > personally run a server (same as pythonwiki.de and linuxwiki.org is
> > > hosted on), but the problem is that it personally costs me 3 EUR/GB for
> > > traffic, so I won't be too happy putting a "successful" ISO on it and
> > > getting a thousand downloads of it. Maybe somebody has a good contact
> > > to get some space on a university server or ibiblio or something
> > > similar?
> >
> > ibiblio is a good possibility.  they have always been willing to host
> > projects like this whenever i have asked them in the past.
> >
> > before doing that, however, what about python.org? (michael, could you
> > inquire about this?)

We should be able to get the ISO located on python.org once it is finished. I 
would suggest that BitTorrent be used for serving the ISO files. We'll need 
to talk with the python.org folks about setting that up, but I think that can 
weight until there is a CDROM for them to evaluate. It would be useful to 
also make the Python core releases available through BitTorrent as well.