On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:14:32 -0300, Daniel Rail wrote:

> >
> > If the performance problem persists I guess the Firebird project
> > would look at mirror sites, but I don't think we are quite there yet.
>
>
> There's a mirror site for SourceForge and the download is much
> quicker.  Look at my previous post on the matter.
>

The Firebird project could arrange for the files to be mirrored in half a dozen different places, and would too, if the need was there. I'd rather that SourceForge sorted this out themselves and made the process transparent to end users. I don't care where the downloads come from, but I do like to see reasonably accurate download statistics. These figures are only maintained, afaik, by downloads via the SF web interface.

Of course, stats are only secondary - they are not a lot of use if users can't actually get at the files. However, they do help us all get a feel for how successful Firebird is and where users are looking to use it.


Paul
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