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opentomb / OpenTomb

An open-source Tomb Raider 1-5 engine remake
http://opentomb.github.io/
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Hosting nightly builds #169

Open Lwmte opened 9 years ago

Lwmte commented 9 years ago

I strongly suggest to leave SourceForge, because it is now extremely unstable and constantly goes offline (including now). Moreover, they tend to "hijack" project pages which migrated to other resources, replacing provided binaries with crapware-filled installers. So we're at risk.

For example, the story of VLC: https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/

I really liked SourceForge, say, five years ago. But now they look more and more like some fake gateway torrent tracker.

stohrendorf commented 9 years ago

Well, I have some webspace... ;)

Lwmte commented 9 years ago

You mean private hosting? That's good idea, but in this case we also need a completely new website to make a "gateway" page for downloads with current version info, updates, news, etc. Current github.io website have no such functionality.

Also, unfortunately, private hostings have a tendency to vanish after a few years... I still can access old binaries on SourceForge (no matter how evil it became now), while I'm not sure if I would be able to do so with some private hosting.

I believe the proper way is to switch nightlies to Github, but for the release versions we indeed can make an independent website.

I have opentomb.org domain registered and can make any redirection, if needed.

stohrendorf commented 9 years ago

Well, it was only an offer, not a proposal.

vvs- commented 9 years ago

Do we actually have a working nightly build service? Last nightly build was June, 29. Anything would be better than nothing.

Gh0stBlade commented 7 years ago

Some recent info in regards to nightly builds in case some of you are unaware: http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showpost.php?p=7692853&postcount=2152