On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Christian Boos <cb...@neuf.fr> wrote: > >> As far as I can tell, among the different places listed in >> http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#windows Tigris.org was the only >> place to provide direct access to the svn-python bindings (e.g. >> svn-python-1.6.6.win32-py2.[56].exe). It's true that 1.6.6 was the latest >> version for which such packages were provided, which means that in practice >> you won't see any Trac or other Python software using those bindings running >> on Windows with anything newer ;-) >> >> Therefore my question is: if Tigris.org should no longer be considered as >> the official download location for the Windows installers for Subversion >> Python bindings, is there even an alternative? > > As Hyrum indicated there has never been an "official" location, and we > are not talking about deleting the archive, just making it more clear > that it is old and there are newer versions available. > > If there are things like the Python bindings that people want then the > best thing would be to ask the people that are still actively > providing binaries if they can provide them. I can say from looking > at the tigris logs that the bindings account for a tiny percentage of > the downloads. The overwhelming majority are the standard zip and > installers which you can get more recent versions of elsewhere.
This does bring up an important point, though. I wonder if we, as a community, understand what all the needs or the user community are, in terms of various binaries and such. Having a list somewhere of "people would like X, please contribute it if you can" may prove useful in connecting potential producers with consumers of binary packages. -Hyrum
