At 02:09 PM 01/17/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >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).
I checked what the NetBSD "pkgsrc" system does, and it uses the fact that there is a .dl.sourceforge.net subdomain for mirrors. I investigated further and found that dl.sourceforge.net is a round-robin (or random?) DNS for each of the mirrors in the subdomain, so there's a simple transformation from the user-visible download pages to the actual download address. You can see this in the new fix_sf_url() function I added to setuptools.package_index. >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. Yeah, uploading to cheeseshop is great for new projects. But practically speaking, SF *is* used to distribute a lot of things, especially big things that mirrors are more useful for. So, it's definitely good for stuff to work. :) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
