On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Phil Steitz wrote:
Henri Yandell wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Martin Cooper wrote:
I think, if we had a standard "template" for download pages, each subproject could have its own download page, something like we have for Struts:
http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi
Agreed, much nicer than the closer.cgi. I'd prefer it if subprojects didn't have to really care about it; ie) they'd just link to:
http://jakarta.apache.org/download.cgi/commons/lang-1.4.zip
You can link directly now, using the anchors in the main Jakarta download pages, e.g.
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi#commons-math
Yep. There are two poor things about this:
1) As with the new header, it means most people jump the text on keys/md5 etc.
2) It seems pointless from a user point of view. The bit they're interested in is very small compared to the size of the whole page they're being dumped in.
The struts download page is a lot nicer from a user point of view, though one criticism is that the pgp/key stuff is at the bottom of the page there and unlikely to be seen by a downloader too. It's also serving more than one file.
I'd like to see each project with links to something like:
http://jakarta.apache.org/download.cgi/jakarta/poi/poi-7.2.zip
which would show a page that automatically does the pgp/md5 blurb, links to poi-7.2.zip.md5 and KEYS (in the same dir as the zip?) and handles the mirror stuff. We'd use the download.cgi for both binary and source.
Hen
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