Hi Anthony, On 08/02/15 17:15, Anthony Walter wrote: > Michael, from my script: > > # Note we use our bucket instead of sourceforge or svn for the following > # reason: > # It would be unethical to leach other peoples bandwidth and data > # transfer charges. As such, we rehost the same fpc stable binary, fpc > # test sources, and lazarus test sources from sourceforge and free > # pascal svn servers using our own Amazon S3 bucket. > > # Download from our Amazon S3 bucket > URL=http://cache.getlazarus.org/archives
I can't help but think this is a bit misguided... say, if 100 people use your site to download and install Lazarus & FPC, that still amounts to 1 download off the official FPC & Lazarus sites... this would mean for FPC & Lazarus that download statistics will be shifted away from them to your site. If something is unethical, then /this/ is - unless you provide the original site back with your statistics... (while I never got to use it, Reinier's fpcup I think always downloaded from original URLs?) Also while I'm not totally questioning your approach, I think your effort should be integrated into existing Lazarus & FPC project pages, if only for that reason. Also I for one would be probably more happy to see your site to be more (visually, logically) like a mirror of existing Lazarus & FPC's services. (and, oh, sorry, I don't read forum posts unless I don't absolutely HAVE TO, so if any of those concerns were covered on forums, then please point me & disregard the above ;) ) Kind Regards el es -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
