Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 18:15:05 -0300 From: "Dr. Rolf Jansen" <rj@obsigna.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloads policy of Google Code changed Message-ID: <D9C866A6-9F10-4920-9998-0E83B90ADB46@obsigna.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vDVpB0QqtC=%2BUQj-%2ByCjpsY-RutNJ2KaNWvzVhGm0_gQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <B7BF2CD3-D15D-4AA6-BB78-0AA6437604FA@obsigna.com> <533C4B4F.20607@gmail.com> <CAN6yY1vDVpB0QqtC=%2BUQj-%2ByCjpsY-RutNJ2KaNWvzVhGm0_gQ@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Am 02.04.2014 um 09:44 schrieb Marc van Woerkom = <marc.vanwoerkom@gmail.com>: > Thanks for that interesting report. > I checked the site and found this announcement: >=20 > = http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-downl= oad-service.html >=20 > There they recommend to move new downloads to Google drive. > I don't know however, if this is a reasonable option for a FreeBSD = port. Marc, thank you very much for the link to the announcement, and the = pointer to Google Drive, I forgot that detail. Am 02.04.2014 um 16:42 schrieb Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:39 AM, V=E1clav Zeman <vhaisman@gmail.com> = wrote: >> On 04/02/2014 02:35 PM, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote: >>> ... >>> At the end of the last year, Google Code changed their policy to not >>> to allow anymore new downloads from the projects sites, while old >>> downloads are still available, at least for the time being. >>>=20 >>> I am going to prepare a new release for the FreeBSD ports, and I am >>> now in doubt where to place the release snapshot of the source code: >>> ... >>=20 >> If I were you I would just create a shadow project on SourceForge and >> place just files there. >=20 > Or github or lots of others,mostly git based. >=20 > As for Google Drive, I suppose that it could be a solution as long as = you > have adequate space for the distro(s). The URLs are pretty ugly. I = don't > know if there is a way to make them a bit "prettier". DISTFILE will = need to > be explicitly stated in the Makefile. I'd move it to githb or some = place > like that, I think. I noticed that iperf, a project with which I used = to be > involved, just moved to github. V=E1clav and Kevin, thank you very much for sharing your ideas, I = appreciated it, even if finally decided to follow the Google Drive path. = I opted against (partially) moving to another project hoster, because = this seemed to be too involved to me. I like very much the ease of use = of the SVN-Web-implementation on Google Code, and switching to GIT is = not an option at all for me. I created already the snapshot of the new release, put the distfile to = the public clone - Google Drive, modified/tested the ports Makefile and = distinfo, and submitted an update request to FreeBSD ports. I hope, that this is acceptable. Many thanks again to everybody who responded. Best regards Rolf
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?D9C866A6-9F10-4920-9998-0E83B90ADB46>