On 2 February 2010 20:02, Vincent Snijders <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think about adding the files on SF to > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases. The hard (time consuming) > part is adding links to it.
It shouldn't be... In fact it will probably be less work than the current process of publishing software on SourceForge. With a ftp site you simply create a new release folder "v0.9.28.3" and upload the various files into there. Update the "current" symbolic link. Done! You only need one link on the website. ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/current "current" will always be a symbolic link to the latest release. At this moment it will be: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/v0.9.28.3/ The developers can browse "current" and simply download the binary they need for their platform. This process has been done for years by just about everybody. For one, most Linux distros release new versions like that. Not to mention that the FTP protocol is faster than HTTP, so download speeds should be better too, and have the possibility of reliably resuming a download if your internet connection fail. As far as I know the already available download binaries are correctly named indicating what it is and for what target or platform, so nothing needs to change there either. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
