Re: Default Download Site: Google Code

Hi everyone,

I'm not that convinced. IMHO the current download site is good and
fast enough (although it's down sometime, but when it's up, it has
always been fast for me). There are many people out there hating
Google and everything that's related to it (at least here in Germany).
Obviously I'm not one of them, but before changing the default
download site I would recommend using it as the first mirror for some
time and if it proves to be worthy make it the default download site.

Furthermore there are other alternatives. For example github.com is
similar to Google Code and could also be used for code since git is a
very nice VCS (imo better then svn).
Another example is my own server (watteimdocht.de) which is currently
also hosting the forums:
http://watteimdocht.de/autopackage/forum
The advantage over Google Code is that I have root access, so I can
add symbolic links, execute script to automatically fetch the current
release, etc. If we create a Google Code project we would need to
upload the tarballs there every time we make a new release.

I could be wrong and underestimate Google Code, but right now I would
rather stay with the current download site.

A good solution could also be that each Autopackage downloads a list
with mirrors. This way we don't need to always change the list in each
autopackage and older Autopackages would also download from newer
(faster) mirrors. Of course we should leave a list of mirrors as a
fallback in each autopackage.

Package signing might also be interesting. Or downloading using Bittorrent :D

> Don't worry about Google... just leave it to Mike Hearn.   :)

Sorry, I don't want to be rude, but when has Mike Hearn working at
Google ever helped Autopackage? Even Google doesn't use Autopackage
and doesn't sees any interest in supporting it (although it really
might be useful for Google Earth, Google Desktop or Google Chrome
distribution on Linux).

-
Jan

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