On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> However, I'm wondering >>>> if this would be a ripe occasion to making the leap to something like >>>> http://code.google.com. >>> >>> Oh - dear - I'm afraid I have said this on several mailing lists, but >>> Google code is the most aggressive in blocking access from 'forbidden >>> countries' such as Cuba, where I often work [1]. Only Google code >>> and Sourceforge do this; and Sourceforge allows you to opt out. I >>> think this is against the spirit of open source software, and it has >>> made it harder for me to advocate the use of open-source in general >>> and python in particular. I hope very much you consider using a more >>> open provider. >> >> Are you happy with sympy switching to github? Now all these sites are >> hosted at github: >> >> http://sympy.org/ >> http://docs.sympy.org/ >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy >> >> Does this work from Cuba? Indeed, I got couple requests from Cuba, >> that they can't access sympy, and it truly sucks. > > Yes, I've used github extensively from Cuba, including sympy - I > haven't come across any restrictions. Is it possible they were trying > to get to something on the Google code site? You can't even get to > the web pages there, so it can be difficult to work out what you can't > see, if you see what I mean.
They wrote me a private email, asking how to download sympy sources, and at that time, I just pointed a debian page with the latest release, that worked in Cuba. Now we use github for the latest git, so it's a non issue. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
