[Retros] The Retro Analysis Corner

[Olivier Teulière]

On Thu, May 09, 2002, Joost de Heer wrote:


> >Here is a small suggestion: why don't you add a downloadable archive

> >(updated every month for example) containing the whole RetroCorner?

> >It could be very useful for people with slow connections.



> Realize that, when I stopped maintaining the retro corner end july lat

> year, the archive (a tar/gz of the whole public_html tree) was about

> 12 MB!


I may be naive but I think that some people will download the archive
despite its size: the RetroCorner has a lot of intern links (problems,
definitions, solutions, etc...), and it can be pleasant to have
everything somewhere on the hard disk...



> Most of the archive is GIFs of the diagrams btw (1801 at the time I

> created the archive)


There is a solution for this : a PHP script could generate the diagrams
on-the-fly, thus reducing drastically the size of the archive.

But I agree this solution is not perfect : it would require to have PHP
installed on both server (for normal users) and client (for people that
download the archive) sides, and it would also be a painful task to
change all the existing pages...

Well, I just wanted to mention the possibility :) Anyway, if you want to
try this, I'm ready to help.

-- 
Olivier