On 17 November 2017 at 11:27, Robert Scholte <[email protected]> wrote: > This topic deserves a separate mailthread. > > Quoting Sebb on a different thread: > "The download link points to the top-level of the ASF mirror system. > > This makes it very hard to use." > > AFAIK the ASF says there should be a download button for every released > product.
Yes. > In case of Maven we're talking about a lot of projects, and downloads should > be redirected via a mirror. > > I don't think it is possible to do a deeplink to a specific folder. Yes it is possible. See http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html#closer et seq. In this case, you could use: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/plugins/ to at least show the correct directory. and http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/plugins/maven-jdeprscan-plugin-3.0.0-alpha-1-source-release.zip to link to the file. There are various other options; see the page quoted above. > Also, in case of Maven plugins and other dependencies (all excluding the > Maven distribution itself) it is kind of strange to provide a download link > when we could assume that they only want to have the plugin/dependency XML > fragment. > > I agree that the link is kind of useless right now, but also the best we can > do when providing a direct download link. > If there's no way to do a deeplink, I'd prefer to remove it from the pages > and announcements. The ASF mission is to produce open SOURCE software and links to the source artifacts are required. > thanks, > Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
