On 2012/12/16 9:21 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Jason Grout > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> On 12/14/12 10:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> sourceforge's horror of an interface. >> >> I'll second that. Every time I go to Sourceforge, I have to figure out >> how in the world to download what I want (and I have to figure out which >> things *not* to click on too). > > Ok sounds like there is a reasonable amount of resistance towards Sourceforge. > > Eric, when you suggest that NumFocus could 'provide hosting directly', > do you mean they would have the physical hardware to host the files, > or are you suggesting they provide the finances to seek hosting > elsewhere?
I was thinking that perhaps NumFocus would be running a server that could provide the hosting. Funding for an external service is also possible, though, and might make more sense. > > In the GitHub blog post, they suggest using S3. We could try that. > It's fairly inexpensive and the first year is free (within monthly > bandwidth limits). We could try it for a year and see how that pans > out? I'm not entirely sure how the Amazon stuff works but I've heard > good things about it. > The github page https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads shows 44,000 downloads for the 1.2 tarball, so I don't think the 20,000 downloads per month limit of the free tier would work. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
