Important!! Backup Your Utilities

[SoulofDeity]

I was recently updating one of my svn's and happened across a bit of a dilema. The code.google service is being terminated in 2014. Google has stated they will no longer be accepting uploads and that users should backup their files to another service such as google drive. As some of you know, many modding utilities such as gzrt, uot, zsaten, and ozmav are hosted on code.google.

 

If someone has a lot of free time on their hands, I'd suggest moving them to another service like sourceforge before they're lost.

[xdaniel]

Google Code itself is not going anywhere; the download functionality, such as for binaries or source archives, will be deprecated. Plus, while creating new downloads indeed won't be possible anymore for anyone starting January 2014, existing downloads are said to continue to be accessible for the foreseeable future. Source code hosting via version control like SVN apparently won't be affected at all. This is a bit of a problem if you want to keep providing new builds for projects hosted there, but it's not like they'll shut down everything, that every piece of source code and every binary will be lost come January.

[Jason777]

Uh oh... vg64tools and z64 googlecode pages are in danger. Those are the pages I visit most often.

[xdaniel]

"Starting today, existing projects that do not have any downloads and all new projects will not have the ability to create downloads. Existing projects with downloads will see no visible changes until January 14, 2014 and will no longer have the ability to create new downloads starting on January 15, 2014.  All existing downloads in these projects will continue to be accessible for the foreseeable future."

 

z64 Google Code has ONE download, a ppf patch, everything else is in the sources, which will stay unchanged. vg64tools has multiple downloads, but, again, they will still be accessible. Yes, backing all that stuff up would be a good idea, but it's not gonna disappear overnight, even on January 15th.