Re: debian/watch sf redirector docs ?
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Raphael Geissert
<atomo64+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, go ahead and see your watch files fail within a month, or whenever
> sourceforge makes yet another change on their website.
> It has already happened with the ftp mirror, the website, the
> downloads.sf.net pages, now the rest of the mirrors, and will happen again.
> The pourpose of the redirector is to provide the information without having
> to deal with sourceforge's mess.
Sourceforge seems to be improving a lot lately (for example: git VCS
option, support via IRC). I suggest that they might be open to
providing a permanent solution to this, like direct access to an
apache-generated index of files available for each project.
--
bye,
pabs
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