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

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