> > Does it delete the download entirely > > in certain circumstances (assuming that it hasn't been downloaded yet at > > all)? > > No, it's an unconditional delete. It will flash warnings at you, > asking you to reconsider. We consider it a best practice to keep > releases around forever -- even if buggy -- just for the sake of your > users, old links, internet archivists, etc. The warnings will suggest > that you instead mark it 'deprecated', so that it doesn't show up on > the downloads list, but is still available at the old URL. But > ultimately as a project owner, you have a power to delete it anytime, > for any reason. >
Thanks for this clarification. It hasn't always been this way with Google Code though, has it? Didn't you guys used to prevent download deletion? > > Does it *always* allow replacement by another binary? > > Yes. Be extremely careful about this. > I will. It does seem like a potentially very confusing/powerful feature. Perhaps a nice setting on the admin page would be to prevent project members from uploading something with a name that has been used before (whether subsequently deleted or not). :D -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :Darren :Pearce ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Shop & Donate: http://buy.at/campuskids *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Postdoctoral Researcher London Knowledge Lab, University of London ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Visiting Research Fellow Informatics, University of Sussex http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/darrenp/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenpearce ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
