Re: publicizing xvoice-sphinx

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- "Jessica P. Hekman" <http://www.arborius.net/~jphekman> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, robert b wrote:
> 
> > I assume that LMs are "static content".  So, I'm not sure if this'll work out.
> 
> I don't think LMs are static; they are not static HTML pages, they are 
> things that get downloaded, and I can easily imagine us building one and 
> wanting to publish changes to it.

Well, it's very doubtful that you'd want to check a 627Mb file into and out of RCS/CVS.  I don't
even think I'd do that on my home machine, let alone on someone else's machine over the internet!

> However, since just one LM is bigger than 500MB, I can imagine they'd 
> balk. So yeah, you should probably look into tigris... I wonder if we're 
> just going to have lots of problems with stuff this size no matter where 
> we go.
> 
> j

I'm sure that we will have a lot of problems.  People regularly downloading such huge files over a
network connection could be difficult for any company to accept, let alone one that offers free
foundry services.

Anyway, I just signed up for tigris and I'll try going further.