Re: Thwab project

[Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <aelmahmoudy at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

as-salamu alaykom,

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:53:18AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> The data is currently available via,
> 
>  + http://www.thwab.net/thwab-data               (hosted as separate books)
>  + http://www.thwab.net/books.html               (an upcoming interface)
>  + http://www.thwab.net/downloads/thwab-data.tar (includes all data)
> 
> Moayyad, I have no problem with the data being off-site given thwab.net
> will survive and will be there for the long-haul (I'm thinking 4 or 5
> years down the line :-).  An improvement on what is currently in place
> is to upload all those data (aka "books") to arabeyes' sf.net account
> (again the data is around 70MB and its rather static).  Moayyad, let me
> know when you want to see that happen post finalizing all the changes
> you are/will be making to the data files.

  1. I suggest that the thwab-data (ie. the books), be bzip2'ed to 
     minimize size for download.
  2. As for where to host the thwab-data, I suggest that it would be 
     hosted on both thwab.net & on arabeyes' sf.net page (ie. some sort 
     of mirroring, I think I've seen some projects do that).