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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sourceforge and torrenst updated
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:59:17 +0000
Message-ID: <BFE9D0A5.372D%[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136919926.27837.252.camel@camel>




On 10/1/06 19:05, "Robert Treat" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 13:11, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Robert Treat wrote:
>> 
>>>> I've added new release to sf.net. Also updated the torrents.
>>> 
>>> Whats the deal with the windows binaries on sf? I couldn't find them... are
>>> you just waiting on the pginstaller folks?
>> 
>> If we upload Windows binaries, then we need to upload RPMs to (and also
>> other binaries). That would be a pain. So I've just uploaded source codes.
>> 
> 
> Not if you approach it practically (verses politically) Source code
> downloads basically exclude the entire windows user base, while
> including the *nix user base. Adding win32 binaries balances this out.
> Furthermore the majority of people who have trouble using our ftp mirror
> system are windows users, so having another outlet to send them to is
> really a bonus (and the pgfoundry website doesnt compete with
> sourceforges distribution system)

Is it worth the effort though? We have thousands of downloads a month, yet
we see maybe one or two 'I can't download' messages on webmaster@ in the
same period and many of those fall into the 'I tried one which timed out,
therefore none of them work' category.

Regards, Dave.

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