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Sixline / VortexDM

Vortex Download Manager (VortexDM) - An open-source Python Internet download manager with a high speed multi-connection engine. It downloads general files and videos. Developed in Python, based on "PycURL" and "youtube_dl".
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Rename to vortexdm to match PyPI - VDM was already taken :( #4

Closed Sixline closed 1 year ago

candrapersada commented 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be a problem to create a vortexdm in PyPI if the project stopped and was continued by another project without changing the name again?

Sixline commented 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be a problem to create a vortexdm in PyPI if the project stopped and was continued by another project without changing the name again?

Not exactly sure what you mean. I am just going to change the repository name and code references from VDM to VortexDM to keep things consistent between PyPI and GitHub. update.py already references vortexdm on PyPI so it won't cause any issues.

If someone forks the project they would want to update the code to reference their own project.

candrapersada commented 2 years ago

what I mean is that if in the future VDM or VortexDM is removed from github will PyPI be removed as well or will it still exist like firedm?

Sixline commented 2 years ago

what I mean is that if in the future VDM or VortexDM is removed from github will PyPI be removed as well or will it still exist like firedm?

The original author only left it on PyPI so people who updated would be left with the broken version. I never saw anything as to why the project was removed and purposely broken. I can only guess it was some sort of copyright claim and they didn't want to deal with it, but who knows.

youtube-dl went through this and fought back, https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/. I don't see how this project is any different in that regard.

I have no plans of just removing the project if it gets a copyright claim. If you are worried though keep your own copy of the code off GitHub.

Sixline commented 1 year ago

Renamed in 2023.1.0.