SourceForge changing file distribution scheme!

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 19:35:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Lars Engels<lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:55:00PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
>> * Erwin Lansing (erwin at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>>
>> > > I've noticed that SF is changing file distribution scheme significantly,
>> > > and I guess that will affect many ports and maybe infrastructure.
>> >
>> > I fear the same, unfortunately.  However, I haven't as yet been able to
>> > identify a consistency in the new scheme.
>
> There can also be very weird subdir names: :-(
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tvbrowser/TV-Browser (Java 5 and higher)/2.7.4/tvbrowser-2.7.4.tar.gz
>
>

If it helps any, I can host the weird-named distfiles on my site.  Let
me know if you would like me to do so.


-- 
Glen Barber


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