> --On Sunday, October 27, 2002 12:30 AM +0100 Pier Fumagalli > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, as long as it's clear! :-) I'm very dumb, but I know other > > people smarter than me who also have the same problem with > > SourceForge... You simply "forget"! :-) > > Well, I agree with Pier. I'm an idiot, too. I absolutely can't > stand SourceForge's mirroring system (which is essentially what that > page is moving us to). It tells me that I'm downloading a file, but > when I try to download it by hitting the link, I get an HTML file > that shows me mirrors where I can download it. Eh, no. > > To be blunt, any link from that download page must go directly to a > tarball not to a page that lists mirrors. I've offered ASF-wide > suggestions to the mirroring problem. I still think the best > strategy is to do round-robin DNS of dists.apache.org (and indicate > that those servers aren't necessarily trusted). -- justin >
I don't have a problem at all with the way downloads have been done. FWIW, I agree with Justin here. Bill
