Makes sense. In any case, the page I just staged actually works, so unless
someone else has time to put into this, I think it's done for now.

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Andreas Veithen
<andreas.veit...@gmail.com>wrote:

> The fact that CXF uses closer.cgi is probably due to the fact that it
> used Confluence and that the available options to build a download
> page are more limited than in the case of a Maven site.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 16:40, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Andreas,
> >
> > Well, I decided to follow the pattern at CXF instead, since Dan is
> usually
> > way ahead of me. That uses 'closer.cgi' instead of 'download.cgi'. The
> > existing site was a broken attempt to use download.cgi.
> >
> > I just checked in a version that works, after editing to fix years of
> sloppy
> > pathname edits. I'm surprised anyone's ever successfully download the
> > package :-)
> >
> > --benson
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Andreas Veithen
> > <andreas.veit...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Benson,
> >>
> >> Did you have a look at the following page?
> >>
> >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html
> >>
> >> I always thought that the download.cgi based mechanism is the
> >> preferred way to build download pages.
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 15:48, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I see what I have to do to fix this once and for all.
> >> >
> >>
> >
>

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