Re: new GNAT

[Vincent Smeets <V.Smeets@T-Online.de>]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:06:22 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 
>>Could anybody mirror it? 
> 
> 
> 	Probably not easily... Given that AdaCore wants a registered user to
> get to the download page... and then the download is a customized TAR
> file based upon what parts a user selects to have downloaded -- rather
> than individual downloads for each item.
> 
> 	<2 hours to go>

You do not have to select the components and download everything as a 
tar file. On the page where you select the components for the tar file, 
you can just click on the separate filenames. They are all hyperlinked. 
This way, you can download every file separately.

I do not think that for every download a tar file is created and made 
available for download. They just transmit a tar-header in front of 
every selected file, then send the file itself and at the end an 
tar-trailer. That looks to the client (us) as one big tar file.

I can't (and will not) give a way around the user registration. In case 
AdaCore requires a registrated user for every download, then we should 
accept that. If someone wants to mirror the AdaCore software, then he 
should contact AdaCore about the conditions and possibilities.


Regards,
Vincent Smeets