matplotlib-devel Mailing List for matplotlib

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
>> On 12/16/2012 03:44 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
>>> On 2012年12月16日 9:21 AM, Damon McDougall wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Jason Grout
>>>> <jas...@cr...> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/14/12 10:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>>>>>> sourceforge's horror of an interface.
>>>>> I'll second that. Every time I go to Sourceforge, I have to figure out
>>>>> how in the world to download what I want (and I have to figure out which
>>>>> things *not* to click on too).
>>>> Ok sounds like there is a reasonable amount of resistance towards Sourceforge.
>>>>
>>>> Eric, when you suggest that NumFocus could 'provide hosting directly',
>>>> do you mean they would have the physical hardware to host the files,
>>>> or are you suggesting they provide the finances to seek hosting
>>>> elsewhere?
>>> I was thinking that perhaps NumFocus would be running a server that
>>> could provide the hosting. Funding for an external service is also
>>> possible, though, and might make more sense.
>>
>> I'll definitely walk down the hall and talk to my local Numfocus board
>> member ;)
>
> At the 6th Annual Scientific Software Day here at UT Austin, I met and
> spoke to Travis Oliphant regarding funding for hosting our binaries.
> Travis has links with NumFOCUS and was eager to help the matplotlib
> community host binaries should we choose to not go with sourceforge or
> another free option.
>
> I'll need touch base with him again to get specifics, but I thought
> I'd just let everyone here know that that's still an option.
>
> To be honest with you, I'm thinking that if we only want to link to
> binaries from the matplotlib web page then sourceforge really doesn't
> sound like a bad option at all.
Or -- I'll just point this out one more time then leave the dead horse
alone :-) -- you could just register a project called
'matplotlib-downloads' on google code hosting, and have static URLs
that look like e.g.
 https://apa6e.googlecode.com/files/apa6e-v0.3.zip
and let Google foot the bill for reliable high-bandwidth CDN hosting.
-n

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> On 12/16/2012 03:44 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
>> On 2012年12月16日 9:21 AM, Damon McDougall wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Jason Grout
>>> <jas...@cr...> wrote:
>>>> On 12/14/12 10:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>>>>> sourceforge's horror of an interface.
>>>> I'll second that. Every time I go to Sourceforge, I have to figure out
>>>> how in the world to download what I want (and I have to figure out which
>>>> things *not* to click on too).
>>> Ok sounds like there is a reasonable amount of resistance towards Sourceforge.
>>>
>>> Eric, when you suggest that NumFocus could 'provide hosting directly',
>>> do you mean they would have the physical hardware to host the files,
>>> or are you suggesting they provide the finances to seek hosting
>>> elsewhere?
>> I was thinking that perhaps NumFocus would be running a server that
>> could provide the hosting. Funding for an external service is also
>> possible, though, and might make more sense.
>
> I'll definitely walk down the hall and talk to my local Numfocus board
> member ;)
At the 6th Annual Scientific Software Day here at UT Austin, I met and
spoke to Travis Oliphant regarding funding for hosting our binaries.
Travis has links with NumFOCUS and was eager to help the matplotlib
community host binaries should we choose to not go with sourceforge or
another free option.
I'll need touch base with him again to get specifics, but I thought
I'd just let everyone here know that that's still an option.
To be honest with you, I'm thinking that if we only want to link to
binaries from the matplotlib web page then sourceforge really doesn't
sound like a bad option at all.
-- 
Damon McDougall
http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com
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