Closed calsirlerilor closed 6 years ago
These folks are not happy about hosting this file 😁
Indeed. This is why the binaries should be hosted elsewhere. According to their own license page this is allowed, and I do not see reasons we should not do it.
-- Carlo
For now, I've uploaded this update to the previous version.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/rsync/5.5.0.20180530
I'm going to contact the vendor and see if they'll send me the binaries when they publish updates to avoid the $6/download on every new version 😄
I emailed the vendor:
Anthony Mastrean (anthony.mastrean@gmail.com) sent a message using the contact form at https://www.itefix.net/contact.
I'm the maintainer of the cwRsync package on Chocolatey.org (it's an application package manager for Windows): https://chocolatey.org/packages/rsync
I understand your issue with "free" downloads and the institution of the fee-per-download. I was wondering if we could work together to find a platform to host your binary so I could continue maintaining this package (otherwise, we're stuck at 5.5.0, currently pointing to archive.org).
They responded:
Hi Anthony,
It is actually to fire up a Cygwin environment, extract binaries, dependent DLLs and pack them into a zip Archive and call it what you want (I've used cwRsync :-)). That's all you need for a client functionality. IMHO, v5.5.0 is just fine.
I see that your chocolatey has gone commercial too. I have no problems with to understand that - If you want to offer software with support and quality, you need to charge some way.
Kind regards Tev
I'll take that as a "No" 🤷♀️
itefix updated cwrsync again and removed the binary version 5.7.1.
However, they added a "download fee": https://www.itefix.net/content/cwrsync-free-edition
This time we need a separate repository to distribute the binary, as they are freely redistributable: https://web.archive.org/web/20180524124542/https://www.itefix.net/cwrsync?qt-cwrsync=5 (I archived the page just in case).
Best regards,
-- Carlo