[Live-demo] Re: OSGeoLive, Sourceforge, and South Africa

[Alex Mandel]

On 03/01/2012 01:52 AM, edgar.soldin at web.de wrote:
> On 01.03.2012 10:47, edgar.soldin at web.de wrote:
>> On 01.03.2012 03:19, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> If someone could look up the policies again and check that would be
>>> great (I'm not even sure sourceforge lets you upload files as big as the
>>> ones we have via their interface or ftp).
>>
>> although it takes an hour or so until the upload appears, it worked perfectly (incl. mirrors) when i tried it some weeks ago. upload of 1.7GB was done via sftp.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Release%20files%20for%20download
>> does not mention any size limitations.
>>
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Project%20web%20and%20developer%20web%20platform#Filesizelimits
> suggests to use the FRS rather than the web space, no size limits mentioned
> 
> ..ede
> _______________________________________________

Thanks, that info seems new since the last time I poked around
sourceforge. It still isn't clear which mirrors the files will end up on
or how long it takes (might take a week?).

Next I'll look into what kind of download statistics they keep.

Thanks,
Alex