On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 04/27/2012 08:49 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: >> On 4/27/12 5:32 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> 2012/4/27 Jürgen Schmidt<[email protected]> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> to be prepared for the upcoming release I plan to use the following >>>> directory structure on >>>> >>>> https://www.apache.org/dist/**incubator/ooo<https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo> >>>> >>>> >>>> Existing >>>> 3.3 >>>> 3.3/patches >>>> 3.3/patches/cve-2012-0037/... >>>> DATE >>>> KEYS >>>> >>>> New added: >>>> 3.4.0/source >>>> 3.4.0/windows/... >>>> 3.4.0/windows/languagepacks/..**. >>>> 3.4.0/macos/... >>>> 3.4.0/macos/languagepacks/... >>>> 3.4.0/linux-x86/... >>>> 3.4.0/linux-x86/languagepacks/**... >>>> 3.4.0/linux-x86-64/... >>>> 3.4.0/linux-x86-64/**languagepacks/... >>>> >>>> >>>> 16 languages: en-US ar cs de en-GB es fr gl hu it ja nl ru pr-BR zh-CN >>>> zh-TW >>>> >>>> Do we need to prepare or adapt the download page? >>>> >>>> Juergen >>>> >>> >>> >>> Juergen-- >>> >>> This will considerably change the current logic being used. Is there some >>> reason you don't want to use the existing setup of: >>> >>> root DL area/files/stable/3.4/... >>> root DL area/files/localized/3.4/... >>> >>> see: >>> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/ >> >> I had a look to other projects in the dist folder on Apache and looked >> what we already have. >> >> From my point of view the old structure doesn't really make too much >> sense. >> >> Why should we for example put the localized bit in separate directories >> when we have the language Id as part of the name? >> >> And we have only stable releases in the future. Ok we will have archives >> of older versions but that's it. >> >> Do we have the time to adapt it to the new structure. We should do it ow >> if possible. >> >> What do others think? > > It won't work because the DL logic is working the old way, and only this way. > ;-) > > The old structure has everything in a single directory. The only separation > is for en-US only (stable) and all other languages (localized). > > When we change the structure now where the builds are physicaly existing, > then we have to adapt the complete logic, too, which is an effort that I > cannot predict. > > So, the best solution is to keep the old separation and think about to change > this with a new release. > > Then I would prefer to have every install file for a specific version in a > single directory. This makes it the easiest way to assemble download links: > > Example: > > <root-path>/files/3.4.0/... > <root-path>/files/3.4.1/... > <root-path>/files/3.5.0/... > ...
We can only keep the most current version in Apache dist. All older versions go to the archive. Regards, Dave > > Marcus >
