thoth created FOP-3221:
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Summary: Keep download links or provide a version-independent link
Key: FOP-3221
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3221
Project: FOP
Issue Type: Improvement
Environment: download website
Reporter: thoth
FOP binary is available through a direct download link, currently it is [this
one|https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?filename=/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-2.10-bin.zip&action=download].
Each time a new FOP version is released, former binary versions are removed
from the server, and the old link is no longer valid. Only the link with the
current version is obviously valid.
I am using the FOP binary as part of a GitLab pipeline. In this pipeline, the
FOP binary is downloaded and unzipped, so that it can be used in further steps.
This is necessary, since the docker images I'm supposed to use do not provide
FOP, unfortunately.
What happens is that every time, a new FOP version is released, the link dies
and breaks the pipeline. This requires me to update the download link to the
FOP binary each time, which is a bit weird.
I guess this issue affects more people than just me.
It would be really super cool, if there was a place with archived FOP binaries
with permanent links that can be referenced, and/or a sym link, e.g.
"{{current}}", in the download directory, so that requests to
{{/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/current}} always point to the latest version of the
zipped binary, in this case {{fop-2.10.zip}}.
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