Many projects, as Lazarus, use Sourceforge only for downloads. I suppose that there are two main reasons: 1) Visibility (People search software in SF) 2) Save bandwidth from their own servers. If a project becomes popular and many people downloads it, SF has resources and specialized systems for downloads (a lot of bandwidth and many balanced servers).
Of course, I think that hosting files in your own servers is a good alternative , I proposed another server like http://www.gna.org because I supposed that you were using SF in order to save bandwidth. If you don't care to use your own servers, that is the best option. By the way, showing a web page with a well organized the list of downloads is necessary. You can just upload the files in the right directory and a simple program scans the directory and shows it organized in a web page. I think it is not a good idea to show just a minimalist list of files as browser show FTP list, it looks too amateur even abandoned. Santiago A. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
