Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/15/07 11:46 CST:
> 
>> I just noticed that one a couple weeks ago, too. So much better. I'm
>> all for changing the link.
> 
> Okay, here's a plan. I'm looking for +1 or -1 to the idea:
> 
> 1. Change all the prdownloads to just downloads.
> 2. Create an xinclude file that says something similar to: "The
> download URL shown above will automatically pick one of the many
> Sourceforge mirrors to download the package from. If you'd rather
> choose which mirror you want to download from, substitute
> 'prdownloads' for 'downloads' in the URL above. Also see the
> section in Chapter 1 - Getting the Source Packages' for additional
> information.
> 3. Insert the xinclude file after the download section of each
> Sourceforge package.
> 4. Create a paragraph in the "Getting the Source Packages" section of
> the book explaining the Sourceforge situation, and additionally show
> an example of forcing a download from a particular mirror. E.g.,
> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/someproject/someproject-x.y.z.tar.gz
> 
> The inserts into each Sourceforge package would be done by global
> seds, so there's really no effort involved at all to make this happen.

+1.  Sounds great to me.

  -- Bruce

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