[Mesa-users] mesa-sdk - "protected" download + recipe of mesa-sdk

[RICHARD H D TOWNSEND]

Hi Josef --

> On Mar 26, 2019, at 4:51 AM, Josef Dvoracek <jose at fzu.cz> wrote:
> 
> Hi @mesa-users,
> 
> I am sysOp at HPC system by small research facility and some of our scientists use Mesa SDK.

Glad to hear that!

> 
> We're using EasyBuild (EB) (https://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild/) to automate and manage installations of the scientific software, and recently I implemented easyconfig (="plugin") to deal with MesaSDK too.
> 
> I'd be glad to open-source it, as perhaps different sites using EB could benefit from it too, but currently we have to maintain own mirror, because the direct download (using some mainstream Python libraries) is failing. The reason is described at mesaSDK FAQ - there is  the '--user-agent=""' cheat. But as manipulating user-agent isn't currently supported in EB (not sure with different automation tools ) - isn't there any chance that this "protection" will be removed soon? No plan's for official mirror on E.G. github ?
> 

The wget workaround is necessary because my web-master has decided to prevent robots from crawling my website. I'll ask him if we can remove the restriction.

> And isn't there any recipe, how the tarball was made?

The SDK itself is built using another SDK -- the SDK2 (SDK-squared), a software development kit for building software development kits. If there's interest from the community, I could publish the SDK2 so that others can try it out.

cheers,

Rich

> 
> cheers
> 
> josef
> 
> 
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