[Tilesathome] Tiles at Home for Windows installer location

Stephan Knauss osm at stephans-server.de
Mon Feb 8 21:03:22 GMT 2010


Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Aren't there places like sourceforge that provide nice download mirrors
> for 3rd party tools that the t at h server could simply link to and that
> wouldn't require my intervention on every single version bump?

I was quite happy to store the sources somewhere else than sourceforge. 
All the trouble started with an abandoned sourceforge project. I hope 
having it in svn enables others to participate more easily.
There are a lot of things that could be improved. But I'm not sure I 
will be the one doing all these improvements ;)
And using SF only as a file hoster is a bit overkill.

What I'm looking for is a location users trust. It's about installing 
binaries.

I do digitally sign the binary. So as long as the signature is valid 
it's sure the binary was not tampered. We could store the fingerprint of 
the certificate used for signing on the server. So a wary user could 
check the authenticity.

I have no problems with hosting the binary on my private server. As long 
as the users are fine with this, I'm also.

Stephan




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