[Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down 2017-09-26

[David Ladd]

Bill,

Well as far as Sourceforge goes it isn't looking good right now.

Since I had to do a clean install of my Windows 10 PC last week.  I have
been slowly getting stuff re-installed.

Well I decided to get the 32bit and 64bit versions of MSYS2 installed so I
could build updated MAME binaries.  Well I started doing the updates to
MSYS2 and got errors that some files were corrupted.  I went through my
routers logs to see what files were coming from where and found that the
files that were failing were coming from Sourceforge.  Well I decided to
look inside one of the downloaded files before Pacman cleaned up the
corrupted files.  I saw this message inside the corrupted files:

<noscript>
We're sorry -- the Sourceforge site is currently in Disaster Recovery mode,
and currently requires
the use of javascript to function.  Please check back later.
</noscript>


So I am guessing something really bad happened. :O

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
> wrote:

> Andrew, Source Forge was OK for a long time, then was bought by someone
> and changed drastically. At the time, GitHub had no Mercurial support and
> the NitrOS9 makefiles rely heavily on Mercurial. GitHub is now allowing
> Mercurial (I think) and it could probably be moved. It would be a massive
> change, but I personally think it would be for the better. Source Forge
> seems to be headed for "commercial" use only, eventually and something will
> have to be done.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 9:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down 2017-09-26
>
> Thank you for letting us know. I am curious, though, why (or maybe they
> are?) these aren't up on github?On 09/26/2017 10:33 AM,
> coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:> Message: 11> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017
> 12:33:09 -0500> From: David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com>> To: CoCoList <
> coco at maltedmedia.com>> Subject: [Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down
> 2017-09-26> Message-ID:>         <CAHW2jkA5TaYFBRxaMfbEm5KhGkNd
> o6eNqMVg55ZgCoqgi310zg at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="UTF-8">> Just a quick notice to anyone that might be trying to
> acquire Toolshed> Project OR NitrOS-9 Project updates right now it seems
> that most of> SourceForge's services are down right now.-- Andrew L.
> AyersGlendale, Arizonahttps://github.com/andrew-ayershttp://www.
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