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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Mono packaging status
From:       Scott Ritchie <scott () open-vote ! org>
Date:       2012-04-24 0:17:00
Message-ID: 4F95F0FC.9030601 () open-vote ! org
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On 4/23/12 1:45 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> On 4/20/12 11:29 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> On 4/19/12 1:54 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>
>>> On 04/19/12 00:12, Vincent Povirk wrote:
>>>> If for some reason you want to try it, the current version is at
>>>> https://github.com/downloads/madewokherd/wine-mono/winemono-0.0.2.msi.
>>>> I think I will need a new home for the binaries, because github only
>>>> gives me enough space for about 5 of them. So, uh, don't count on that
>>>> URL sticking around.
>>>
>>> The right place for this is probably SourceForge, like all our other
>>> downloads. That's a detail to be handler during the final release
>>> through.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jacek
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sourceforge only gives us limited space that you can get through via a
>> simple web URL. If we need Wine to automatically download this the way
>> it does Gecko, then doing a normal "release" via sourceforge might not
>> be enough (since Wine can't click through the page). This is why we
>> were using things like the budgetdedicated hosting service (which is
>> still available) in years past.
>
> I'm not sure what limited space you mean. We already have Wine Gecko on
> SourceForge and a redirecting script on source.winehq.org, which is used
> for automated downloads. AFAIK this way we don't have any limitations
> and, as far as Wine packages are concerned, we don't depend on any
> specific external mirror provider.
>

Perhaps I am misremembering bandwidth limitations as space ones, but I 
do recall that hosting the Ubuntu packages there simply did not work 
once we had more than a few thousand users long ago.

Depending on how frequent a download mono is, we may run into the same 
issue (with a similar solution: most Ubuntu users don't ever hit the 
sourceforge gecko download because they get gecko from an automatically 
installed package that comes with the Wine package)

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie


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