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jankrepl / mltype

Command line tool for improving typing skills (programmers friendly)
https://mltype.readthedocs.io
MIT License
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Would it bother you to provide alternative download links for the models? #97

Closed septsea closed 3 years ago

septsea commented 3 years ago

I am a Chinese student not good at typing. I am very happy to discover the project! At least I can practice typing much more easily. However, I cannot access certain foreign services like Google without a VPN. I cannot afford a stable VPN, so I cannot download the models listed on README.md.

Would it bother you to provide alternative download links for the models?

Thanks.

jankrepl commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your interest!

Sure, no problem. Could you please suggest a hosting server that would be ok for you?

septsea commented 3 years ago

It's so nice of you! What about distributing them as Github releases? This works (almost) everywhere. In this way, you do not have to create extra accounts.

jankrepl commented 3 years ago

Interesting idea:) AFAIK releases are always linked to a specific tag of the source code whereas the models should be useable inside of all versions. However, I have to admit that it looks really convenient. I will look into it a little bit more and unless I find some problems I will create a release and put all the model binaries inside:)

septsea commented 3 years ago

Creating a new repository for storing models might work. In this case, models can be distributed as either releases or "source code" files. It seems like an abuse. 😂

jankrepl commented 3 years ago

I gave it a thought and I would prefer to do it outside of GitHub. Can you point me to a hosting service that is available in China and where I could upload all the models (~500MB)?

septsea commented 3 years ago

Well, I don't really know what real hosting services are available worldwide. In China, the hosting service used most is probably https://yun.baidu.com/, but this is slow without a premium account. A better but less well-known service is https://www.lanzou.com/, but each file must not exceed 100 MB.

You could list what hosting services are available in your country, too.

In my opinion, GitHub is not a bad choice, but if you prefer to do it outside of GitHub, that's OK. I believe that we will find a service available worldwide.

jankrepl commented 3 years ago

I am struggling to register on those sites (since I do not have a Chinese phone number). Feel free to shoot me an email kjan.official@gmail.com and we can figure something out.