On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Pavel Sanda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Georg Baum wrote: >> > Do we offer windows installers on sourceforge? If yes, we should stop >> that >> > ASAP. The reason is that sourceforge was sold some time ago, and they >> are >> > now actively promoting drive-by-installers. See e.g. >> > http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has- >> > fallen/. These drive-by-installers have a very bad reputation, and this >> bad >> > reputation might mark off on LyX, which I do not want, and probably >> nobody >> > else either. >> >> We try to put everything officially downloadable into our ftp server >> together >> with gpg key. Uwe sometimes uses sf, but no official links (i'm aware of) >> point >> there. >> >> Pavel >> > > We do "officially" rely on the Windows dependencies file on Sourceforge. > See CMakeLists.txt: > > set(deps_server > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lyx/Win_installers/Dependencies) > > What is way worse is that there were 461 downloads of LyX 2.0.2 (which is > two years old) in the last 2 months only. > > Vincent > Besides the link to the Windows dependencies, the Windows installer has links to the thesaurus and dictionary files on sourceforge (if I'm not mistaken). Uwe, There are many non-official projects that are used for distribution: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstall.berlios/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/ http://sourceforge.net/project/lyx/<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lyx/Win_installers/Dependencies> Some of them are not updated for years, and one even provides a beta2 installer of something which is not beta2. Why do you want to distribute those files yourself via non-official channels ? Vincent
