On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Ruben Van Boxem
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2013/7/20 Ozkan Sezer <[email protected]>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Ruben Van Boxem
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Although I am not strictly against it, it seems the MinGW-w64 files tree
>> > has
>> > dramatically changed, invalidating any old links to files.
>> >
>> > I'd appreciate if something like this happens, the person making the
>> > change
>> > notifies this list. Unless I missed the message (which is possible),
>> > this
>> > did not happen.
>> >
>> > Please note that all links to my builds I have been posting on the
>> > internet
>> > are now useless. This is not a good thing.
>> >
>> > Ruben
>> >
>>
>> Noticed it upon reading your mail.
>>
>> It is a bit annoying, yes, but if your links are to files and not
>> to directories, and if each of your files have unique file names,
>> then posting download links like:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=202880&filename=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-4.7.2-release-win64_rubenvb.7z
>> ... may save you from such troubles in the future: 202880 is the
>> project group id for mingw-w64.  (And no, I don't know if sf.net
>> would drop support for this in the future.)
>
>
> huh, kewl. Any chance you know how this handles files with identical names
> but different subdirs?

Logically no, it shouldn't support it, that's why I noted it that
way. But no, I never had any such files, therefore I can't know it
by experience.

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O.S.

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