> From: Bill Stoddard [mailto:bill@;wstoddard.com] > Sent: 27 October 2002 03:15
>> --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. Glad to see that I'm not the only idiot that was bitten by this before ;) >> 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. I agree aswell. Sander
