Hi zwetan,

Unfortunately we don't support that use case very well.  You can
replace a download file, but some users will still see the cached
version for a while after the update.

The better solution is outlined in this issue.  You may want to star
it to get updates on it:
http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=417

Thanks,
jason!


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM, zwetan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have a small open source project where
> people csan access the source trough svn
> or download compiled library in the download section
>
> for maintenance reason and ease of use we gonna change
> the structure to split the main sources to multiple smaller project
> and use gclient to recombine everything into the same source
>
> this is ok for the commiters to work with,
> but much less friendly for the normal user
>
> my question is about having a copy of the source tree in a a zip file
> and be able to override this same zip file on a daily/weekly basis
> that way for less advanced user they can just download that zip
> instead of
> installing/learning to use gclient etc.
>
> is it ok/feasible with google code to override a zip file in the
> download section ?
> is it ok to do it on a weekly basis, maybe daily basis (as a nigthy
> build) ?
>
> we can off course generate a different zip every week, but my concern
> is that could tend to grow very big in term of file size over few
> months
> so overriding the same zip would be a better use of the quota
>
> is there a best practice somewhere or advice to do that on google
> code ?
>
> cheers,
> zwetan
>
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