Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Dirk Craeynest" <dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be.> wrote in message 
news:goh8ja$md0$1@ikarus.fw.belnet.be...
> In article <go9vet$upm$1@munin.nbi.dk>,
> Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>>"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
>>news:4d141211-8950-496d-9787-eb0db24aced6@x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>>> Here is the link to the *partial* mirror :
>>> ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/mirrors/pal/
>>>
>>> I gonna make a backup right now, before this one disappears the same
>>> way as all the others ...
>
> Note that the latest version of the *full* Public Ada Library is available
> at <ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/cdrom/index.html>.
>
>>Please don't worry about that; there is a copy in the AdaIC archives:
>>http://archive.adaic.com/ase/index.html
>>
>>This is a copy of Dirk's FTP site, except of course it is available 
>>through
>>HTTP, not FTP, so you can browse it and find it from Google.
>
> The copy at the Ada-Belgium server dates from the period when distributing
> "big files" via http was a no-no, and people insisted that ftp should be
> used for that instead.  Since then the situation changed "somewhat", so
> making a copy available via http is no longer a problem and in fact may be
> preferable for many reasons, as stated by Randy.
>
> Nevertheless, I received reports from people who appreciate the
> availability via ftp, e.g. because they have only ftp- and no http-
> access, so I intend to keep it online as long as cs.kuleuven.be offers
> an ftp-service.

It's good to have both. I agree that it is better to get large files by FTP. 
The main problem with having the whole thing hosted on FTP is that it makes 
it hard to browse the HTML index pages. So the best possible solution would 
be to have it split between HTTP and FTP -- small files and indexes in HTTP 
and large files in FTP -- but as that is a lot of work, I didn't want to 
bother with it.

Probably the best approach is to find the files that you need in the AdaIC 
archives and then download them from Dirk's FTP site if they are large. 
(Filezilla works well for accessing FTP sites.)

                                   Randy.