Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 88169 invoked by uid 500); 27 Oct 2002 00:01:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: dev@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 88156 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2002 00:01:38 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:02:36 -0700 From: Justin Erenkrantz Reply-To: Justin Erenkrantz To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: new download page Message-ID: <2147483647.1035651756@[10.0.1.22]> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0b7 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.2 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N --On Sunday, October 27, 2002 12:30 AM +0100 Pier Fumagalli wrote: > Ok, as long as it's clear! :-) I'm very dumb, but I know other > people smarter than me who also have the same problem with > SourceForge... You simply "forget"! :-) Well, I agree with Pier. I'm an idiot, too. I absolutely can't stand SourceForge's mirroring system (which is essentially what that page is moving us to). It tells me that I'm downloading a file, but when I try to download it by hitting the link, I get an HTML file that shows me mirrors where I can download it. Eh, no. To be blunt, any link from that download page must go directly to a tarball not to a page that lists mirrors. I've offered ASF-wide suggestions to the mirroring problem. I still think the best strategy is to do round-robin DNS of dists.apache.org (and indicate that those servers aren't necessarily trusted). -- justin