Approval needed again: Scim-tables

[Ryo Dairiki]

Now I know.
Okay, I'll keep going with Colin's patch and update scim-tables later.

Ryo

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:26:13 +0900, Ryo Dairiki wrote:
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>>Hi Jens,
>>    I've adopted Colin's idea simply because I have no objection about that.
>>But today I've found this in the document from sourceforge.net.
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>>    *May I use my download manager when downloading files from
>>    SourceForge.net?
>>    *
>>    SourceForge.net makes use of a geographically-distributed set of
>>    download servers for providing files for download. When performing a
>>    file download, users are now presented with a HTML page, allowing
>>    them to select the mirror they wish to use in downloading that file.
>>    Most download managers are not able to handle this arrangement, and
>>    will instead download the HTML of the mirror selection page. It will
>>    be necessary to disable your download manager before attempting to
>>    download files from SourceForge.net.
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>>It seems like direct download is a heavy task for SorceForge.net.
>>So I would have better put "prdownload" back again.
>>What do you think, everyone?
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>Again, as explained before, the dl.sf.net URLs point to mirrors in
>round-robin fashion (see e.g. "host dl.sf.net") and don't download
>from the master site.
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>Further, only very (!) few users download source code from locations
>specified in spec files.
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