On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:41:46 -0400 Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. This style of download link still appears to work both manually curl -L -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw-w64/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-4.8.0-win32_rubenvb.7z and with the browser auto-handling redirects. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
