How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen

Re:How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen by Filligree on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:24AM (#6262803)

If correct, that's really, really bad. Trying to download some random project from there just gives me a .deb, though, which I am hardly going to install.

I imagine it's OS-sniffing, so any Windows users around to confirm?

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Re:How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen by DCoder on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:30AM (#6262827)

This was discussed on Reddit after Sourceforge announced the new installer three weeks ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jk1gz/sourcefor... , several users confirmed the crapware in the installers.

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Re:How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen by yuhong on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:13PM (#6267444)

I mentioned on Reddit that the Ask digital signature shows in the UAC dialog.

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Re:How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen by timo614 on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:33AM (#6262844)

It appears to be some opt in program called DevShare.

Here's a link to the filezilla forums where the dev team appears to be justifying its use: https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3024...

http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s...

http://sourceforge.net/devshare/why

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Re:How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen by diggan on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:31AM (#6262829)

No, I don't think it's OS sniffing since downloading the windows version of for example Filezilla doesn't allow you to change mirror and as the article explained, downloads from some other url than Sourceforge (or a mirror).

I'm on OSX and when downloading the windows version from the repository, I get the same file as the author. Try it yourself here and download the .exe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/files/FileZilla_Cl...

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