6 May
2025
6 May
'25
9:41 p.m.
Hi Matthias,
Matthias Volk <m.volk(a)tue.nl> writes:
We have seen the unavailability of the website
occasionally throughout
the last months.
Sorry about that. Unfortunately, I suffer from it too.
Is there something we can do in these instances?
Should we notify you
or are you already aware of it anyway? Or is there perhaps a mirror
which we could try if the main website is down?
First, you should know that LRDE has become LRE a few years ago, but that
we are still moving stuff from one domain to the other one. So
currently
https://www.lre.epita.fr/dload/spot/
and
https://www.lrde.epita.fr/dload/spot/
are two separate servers where you can download Spot's sources.
The former is supposed to be the new address. Eventually the
second address will redirect to the former.
(But this mailing list is still hosted at LRDE.)
During the last outage, the first server was back online a few days
before the second one. So in my own build script, I've started
to do things like
curl $(URL_FROM_LRE) -o file || curl $(URL_FROM_LRDE) -o file
Also, every time we make a release of Spot, and put the sources into the
above two locations, we call web.archive.com so it archives these
tarballs immediately. So even if these two URLs are down, WebArchive is
still an option:
curl -O -L
https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.lre.epita.fr/dload/spot/spot-2.13.ta…
Alexandre