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

[Maximilian A. <max...@gm...>]

2012/12/16 Thomas Kluyver <th...@kl...>:
> On 15 December 2012 23:38, Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe the best thing is to host the binaries on Sourceforge.
>
>
> Having recently tried to do it, Sourceforge tries really hard to avoid
> giving you a direct link that can repeatably be used to download a file
> automatically, i.e. without a browser. In the case I was after it for, I
> ended up downloading the file (a PyWin32 binary) with a browser, and storing
> it on the CI server that I wanted to install it.

I haven't followed this thread in detail, so not sure if it's really
relevant: I agree that it's quite messy, but it's definitely possible
to find stable download links for automated downloads from
sourceforge. I sometimes need this because I use a ports-like system
for installing certain packages from source on top of my regular
Ubuntu system, and it does work quite well. So if this is what's
keeping people from Sourceforge then there are definitely workarounds
(give me a shout if you need more specific information; I'm likely to
have very sporadic internet access over the next few weeks though, so
replies may take a while). However, I also think Sourceforge's
interface is really ugly so if there are better alternatives then
that's great. :)

Cheers,
Max