[PyKDE] Where & What ?

Phil Thompson phil at river-bank.demon.co.uk
Wed Oct 23 11:42:01 BST 2002


> > > SF is more than willing to host everything. I think hosting the
> > > tarballs at SF is far better than hosting them at RiverBank
> > > because of that. Maybe the commercial version of PyQt and such
> > > should still be at RiverBank, but the free version should
> > > definitely find its home on SF for bandwidth reasons.
>
> Yep, but see below.

Let me make this clear - Riverbank will be the home of all software that 
Riverbank develops. Whether or not people take copies and put onto other 
sites is up to them.

> Personally, I tend to "one place to rule them all". Again, simply out of a
> users point of view. Out of political reasons, I surely understand that you
> want to host your files there, as it gives you some part of image (i hope
> you understand what i mean) and serves as advertisement. So there's nothing
> wrong with it, but I wouldn't duplicate the sources (at least not if
> riverbanks host is stable enough). What about this solution :
> Keep the sources on rbc, everything else on (e.g.) sf. And provide
> transparent links on sf that link to the sources, with a comment
> "maintained at riverbankcomputing".

That, to me, is the ideal solution.

Phil




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