On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > On 12/14/2012 02:25 PM, Todd wrote: > > > On Dec 14, 2012 5:59 PM, "Michael Droettboom" <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: >> >> Github has removed the ability to host binaries. They've removed this >> feature without any apparent notification except on their blog saying "it's >> gone today". And the suggested alternative is to use paid services. >> >> https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads >> >> I had planned to complete our set of 1.2.0 binaries with a Python 3.2 from >> Russell Owen in the near future. So much for that. >> >> Any thoughts? Do we go back to Sourceforge for our download hosting? Is >> anyone familiar with any other services? Do we try to piggy-back on what >> other scipy projects are doing? >> >> Mike >> > > Is there a reason pypi is not usable? > > PyPI doesn't support large enough files. (I'm not sure what the limit is, > but I've hit it every time). We have always hosted our files elsewhere and > then just had PyPI point to them. > > Mike
This seems like a pretty big minus, especially considering the work you and others have put in migrating everything over from Sourceforge. Do you think it would be worth contacting the GitHub folks about this? I'm not sure what I'm trying to achieve. I guess I'd like them to realise that GitHub Downloads were a really useful feature and their reasons for removing it without deprecation of the GitHub Uploads process has made the distribution of matplotlib more confusing for our users. Perhaps it's better just to move on... I've been (un?)fortunate enough to never have to use Sourceforge's interface. If it's the case it's not intuitive then I like Nathaniel's idea of hosting the binaries on Google Code. The downside of this, of course, is that matplotlib is then spread across three different services: Sourceforge for the mailing list; GitHub for the source and development; and Google Code for the binaries. Maybe the best thing is to host the binaries on Sourceforge. To be honest, I'm not sure that the service that hosts the binaries matters all that much. We could put links to the binaries on the webpage and then it's completely transparent to the user. Sorry for the stream of conscience. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
