Re: [matplotlib-devel] Github Downloads going away...

[Matt N. <new...@ca...>]

Hi,

> Github has removed the ability to host binaries.  They've removed this
> feature without any apparent notification except on their blog saying
> "it's gone today".  And the suggested alternative is to use paid services.
>
> https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads
>
> I had planned to complete our set of 1.2.0 binaries with a Python 3.2
> from Russell Owen in the near future.  So much for that.
>
> Any thoughts?  Do we go back to Sourceforge for our download hosting?
> Is anyone familiar with any other services?  Do we try to piggy-back on
> what other scipy projects are doing?

Why not use a gh-pages branch to host both docs and binary files from github?

--Matt Newville