[darcs-users] Windows binaries for 2.1.0

David Roundy daveroundy at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 13:37:16 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> Why not just stick them on the wiki? Yes, that exposes downloaders to
>> the same sorts of attacks and a few more, but anyone downloading a
>> binary off a wiki really ought to know the risk they're taking, while
>> someone downloading from http://darcs.net/binaries has good reason to
>> believe that we trust those files.
>
> The issue at hand is that we need a place for the buildbot to upload the
> binaries.  Do you think something like http://contrib.darcs.net (or a
> more strongly named URL) could send the buyer beware message clearly
> enough?  Otherwise, I guess we could get one of our enthusiastic
> volunteers to offer a place...

I hate to suggest it, but one possibility would be to switch to  a
wiki that allows uploading files.

David


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