Marcus Lange wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: > > Hello Kay, > >> First, please ignore the post I sent just now, the approach I talked >> about won't work for the home page, but we may want to think about >> what to do with some of the much older version, e.g. 2.4.1. I don't >> even think they're linked right now. OK, on to this post. > > latest with the coming 3.1 the older 2.x versions are just maintainance > releases. They are available and can be reached/downloaded and thats it. > > My opinion is that we shouldn't put much effort into this.
OK > >> Marcus Lange wrote: >>> Kay Schenk wrote: >>>> Marcus Lange wrote: >>>>> Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> Hello Kay, >>> >>>>> IMHO there shouldn't be any problems when: >>>>> >>>>> a) putting the other variables in it. >>>>> b) move the file to download.openoffice.org >>>>> a) renaming VERSION into STABLE_VERSION and modifying the other >>>>> HTML websites respectively. >>>> >>>> Again, OK, but I think this difference would apply only to folks >>>> wanting to download development versions, and I'm not sure if this >>>> would come into play with our normal download. >>> >>> I would like to have the renaming to identify for what the variable >>> is when we have a lot more in the future. >> >> OK, I did just add several "versions" and other variables you spoke >> about to globalvars.js which is now in the download area if you want >> to take a look. Or, if you want to try to use them. > > The globalvars.js is in your playground, right? Can you please add the > file to the root directory of "download.openoffice.org"? Then I can test > this with the "download.openoffice.org/test" websites. It's in the download directory now. I only implemented it in the link for 2.4.2. If you bring up download.openoffice.org/2.4.2, you'll see what I mean. Code is accessed by download.openoffice.org/globalvars.js >> >> I can change the index page of say download.openoffice.org/2.4.2 to >> use the new js file for a rather non-harmful test. My only concern IS >> that each of these old index pages will need to be manually changed >> when we go to newer versions. I don't like this really, but can't come >> up with a working alternative at the moment. > > Yes, I know that some annoying changes are coming to us but I don't see > an alternative, too. ;-( > > BTW, to create the "next" website was also a reason to get rid of the > many 680er links that are wide spreaded all over the OOo websites. Now > we have to go all the other websites and do a find & replace, starting > with "download.openoffice.org/index.html" ... OK > > Thanks for your help. > > Best regards same to you...let me know what you think. I'm happy to help out if I can > > Marcus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's more than one way to do it." -- Perl programming language motto :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
