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

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Todd <tod...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Jason Grout
>> <jas...@cr...> wrote:
>> > On 12/14/12 10:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> >> sourceforge's horror of an interface.
>> >
>> > I'll second that.  Every time I go to Sourceforge, I have to figure out
>> > how in the world to download what I want (and I have to figure out which
>> > things *not* to click on too).
>>
>> Ok sounds like there is a reasonable amount of resistance towards
>> Sourceforge.
>>
>> Eric, when you suggest that NumFocus could 'provide hosting directly',
>> do you mean they would have the physical hardware to host the files,
>> or are you suggesting they provide the finances to seek hosting
>> elsewhere?
>>
>> In the GitHub blog post, they suggest using S3. We could try that.
>> It's fairly inexpensive and the first year is free (within monthly
>> bandwidth limits). We could try it for a year and see how that pans
>> out? I'm not entirely sure how the Amazon stuff works but I've heard
>> good things about it.
>>
>>
> Are you sure the monthly bandwidth limits are sufficient?
>
> Also, have you talked to the pypi people about making exceptions for really
> popular projects?  If critical packages like numpy, scipy, and matplotlib
> cannot use pypi, that seems like a major failing of the system.

Here's the pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing. The free tier
programme limits are on there too. Unfortunately, I do not have the
knowledge to be able to say whether we would hit that or not.

Matt, have you had experienced comitting binaries to the gh-pages
branch? Are there size limits?

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