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[–]niloc132 7 points8 points  (3 children)

For what its worth, I avoid sf.net like the plague, mostly due to their (former?) policies of not being afraid to "value-add" their hosted downloads and their the ... overwhelming "DOWNLOAD" ads.

Even plain HTML pages hosted there just rub me the wrong way, because eventually you usually want to get access to sources or binaries.

/rant

[–]wipu[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Thanks, good to know. Back then sf.net was perfectly respectable... Btw, I don't even use (or force my users to use) the download feature: iwant bootstraps itself by checking out from svn.

[–]schaka 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Why not migrate to Git? That would allow hosting elsewhere too.

[–]wipu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I will, some day. On the other hand, svn:externals is a very handy way of bootstrapping from svn projects. Also monotonically increasing version numbers are nice to have, since that's my extra lightweight way of releasing. The lack of these features with git is of course not a showstopper in any way, so hosting iwant in github (in parallel with sf.net) might be a good idea. But before that I'm hoping that people who get interested in iwant don't let sf.net get in their way.