Kiwilight is going away, thank you Kaiting

This isn't really affecting anyone, but some of you have been around long enough to remember that the repo used to be hosted on auriga.kiwilight.com. Yesterday I received an announcement from Kaiting Chen that he's taking down the Kiwilight server. It's been badly out-of-date for a long time, and somewhat neglected, but it has soldiered on and I'm still using it regularly for the ArchHaskell work. Thank you Kaiting for providing this excellent service for so long, it will be missed, but I see no issues with managing without it :) # A bit of history Early on in the life of ArchHaskell we were in need of a place to host the repo. Kaiting graciously gave us access to one of his Kiwilight servers (it wasn't Auriga at first, but I've forgotten its name). Soon after that he also gave me root access and the Kiwilight server wasn't only our repo, but also the machine where all packages were built. At some point, due to Kaiting being extremely busy, it started falling behind on updates (it was rather heavily configured, using Kerberos and other stuff I know nothing of, so I didn't dare trying to keep it up-to-date myself). Then the HTTP server failed, but we already had the Xsounds mirror by then. I kept on building the packages on Kiwilight though, until finally that didn't work either and I had to go back to building on my laptop. Still, every ArchHaskell package you've downloaded over the year has passed via the Kiwilight server, nowadays it's used only for signing. I'll miss the Kiwilight server, but the ArchHaskell work won't really be affected at all by its passing :) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
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