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thoth commented on FOP-3221:
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Thanks for your suggestion, but I am not using any build management tool, just
the GitLab CI/CD pipeline.
This pipeline is for generating a pdf document with FOP, hence the dependency
on the download link.
> Keep download links or provide a version-independent link
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>
> Key: FOP-3221
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3221
> Project: FOP
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Environment: download website
> Reporter: thoth
> Priority: Minor
>
> 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 from the server, and the old link is no longer valid.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 does
> 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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