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

[Nathaniel S. <nj...@po...>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
>> On 12/16/2012 03:44 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
>>> On 2012/12/16 9:21 AM, Damon McDougall 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?
>>> I was thinking that perhaps NumFocus would be running a server that
>>> could provide the hosting.  Funding for an external service is also
>>> possible, though, and might make more sense.
>>
>> I'll definitely walk down the hall and talk to my local Numfocus board
>> member ;)
>
> At the 6th Annual Scientific Software Day here at UT Austin, I met and
> spoke to Travis Oliphant regarding funding for hosting our binaries.
> Travis has links with NumFOCUS and was eager to help the matplotlib
> community host binaries should we choose to not go with sourceforge or
> another free option.
>
> I'll need touch base with him again to get specifics, but I thought
> I'd just let everyone here know that that's still an option.
>
> To be honest with you, I'm thinking that if we only want to link to
> binaries from the matplotlib web page then sourceforge really doesn't
> sound like a bad option at all.

Or -- I'll just point this out one more time then leave the dead horse
alone :-) -- you could just register a project called
'matplotlib-downloads' on google code hosting, and have static URLs
that look like e.g.
  https://apa6e.googlecode.com/files/apa6e-v0.3.zip
and let Google foot the bill for reliable high-bandwidth CDN hosting.

-n