Kevin Dangoor wrote: >>This is a probably a FAQ, but maybe the Sourceforge guys can be talked into >>providing some machine-friendly way for downloading files? > > > The problem is that a machine doesn't click on ads. (Or, at least, > isn't supposed to :)
Since they have a 5-second delay in downloading, I assume they really are trying to get ad clicks (since 1 or 0 seconds would do just as well, and direct links would of course be better for everyone). OTOH, it never hurts to ask; maybe someone can open a ticket over on SF? If anyone does, please note that here. Hell, a stable API with a request that API users show a text ad (that would be delivered as part of the API) would be fine with me (as a user of easy_install). But right now I think it is more useful to encourage people to use the cheese shop for file distribution -- SF is also really hard to upload to, so the cheese shop is better on both ends. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
