[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Google code project downloads
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:18:14 -0500
Michael,
I don't understand why Google would stop permitting projects to post new
downloads. It makes their project pages almost useless. Maybe I'm
missing something, butg could you explain.
Thanks,
John
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:31:52PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> In uploading the LibLouisUTDML 2.5.0 release, I noticed on the page for
> creating the new download there was a mention that Google Code will not
> be offering the ability to create new downloads after 15 January 2014.
>
> So my question is, how do we plan to provide liblouis and liblouisutdml
> release downloads after that point?
>
> Do we want to provide these through another website/FTP server or shall
> we look at other project hosting services like SourceForge, BitBucket or
> GitHub?
>
> I guess the other question might be, do people find release downloads
> useful? This could include binary builds as well as source tarballs, or
> would just having release tags in the repository be sufficient?
>
> Michael Whapples
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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