On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
> 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.)

Or use "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw-w64/<FILENAME>?download".
 SF keeps an index of file names by project to know where on the file
system it exists.

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