[GRASS-user] GRASS is seeking mirrors in Latin America and South Africa

[Rainer M Krug]

On 20/01/13 22:15, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> On 01/20/2013 10:55 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2013/1/17 Carlos Grohmann <carlos.grohmann at gmail.com>:
>>>> There's  mirror at University of São Paulo, Brazil :
>>>> http://vps.fmvz.usp.br/grass
>>> good, anyway this mirror needs update. It contains the old website.
>> rsync now needs to point to
>> grass.meteo.uni.wroc.pl::grass
>>
>> Markus
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>
> Hi all,
>
> We had the same problem with OSGeoLive due to large iso files.
> FYI, we solved it by hosting the download files in SourceForge.

I think that is quite a good idea. If all downloads are directed via sourceforge, their mirror 
system can be used, global statistics of downloads are available, and the size of the mirrors will 
be even smaller (no binaries).

Cheers,

Rianer


>
> Best,
> Angelos
>