Ken Moffat wrote:
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 01:35:20PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote:
I believe we still use Sourceforge on occasions for some packages. I
thought that this email from the Scribus list (but relating to Gimp) would
be of interest. It doesn't show Sourceforge in a particularly good light.
Richard
Yes, inkscape too is moving everything off sf.
As an editor, I would be delighted to not have to cope with the
*many* variations of sf URLs, and their action on gimp and other
packages means they are no longer a recommendable site for binary
packages.
Unfortunately, some source packages are still there and so we will
have to continue linking to those until each developer changes where
they keep things.
I have to agree. I've run into many problems with sf. These include
being redirected to very slow mirrors and rewriting of url requests so
figuring out the correct url for the book is not easily done.
Other problems are probably due to maintainers. They include things
like putting spaces into file names or directories and not updating the
"Latest' tag on the top of pages.
-- Bruce
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