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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

On 09/07/2014 04:04 AM, Remko van der Vossen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:13:18PM -0500, David Kowis wrote:
>> On this topic, SF.net changed it's mirror mechanism entirely. I can't
>> remember right now how it actually works, but they select the mirrors
>> for you, rather than having to cycle through them. It uses http
>> redirects iirc.
>>
>> But yeah, our SOURCE_FORGE scheme for picking mirrors is fundamentally
>> broken right now.
> 
> Yeah, I suggest we drop the whole SOURCEFORGE_URL thing entirely, any
> spell I touched that uses it I just remove it completely and replace it
> by the url I get by browsing the files section of the sf.net project
> page of the package. That works and does automatic mirror selection.

Agreed. We don't need to do anything other than put in a download URL,
they handle the mirrors for us.

> 
> Regards, Remko
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