[Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Fri Jan 27 16:59:22 CET 2006

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

If you go to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zodb/ you'll see the equally prominent "Download ZODB and ZEO" button, pointing to that project's equally ZODB-free Files area. But, in that case, you'll see that there is a package, named README, with a "release" named "How to get the source". If you click on that and fight your way through the download process, you eventually end up with file "zodb.txt", which contains a real download URL for ZODB <wink/sigh>. Overall I'm not sure that's an improvement, but it was the best I could come up with 2 years ago when ZODB stopped using SF for downloads.

What if the package wasn't named README, but rather 'www.python.org' with a release named "visit www.python.org/download instead"? I'm not sure if that package/release name is allowed ;P

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