It would be very advantageous to consider how the ASF Repository factors into the the download picture. I've been hoping to see some integration between the contents of dist and those of dist/java-repository. The ability of the repository download requests to be sent to the mirrors using closer.cgi or something similar would be very powerful.
This url structure would be something that helped.
http://jakarta.apache.org/download.cgi/commons/lang-1.4.zip
Pointing Maven at the asf repository as:
http://www.apache.org/download.cgi/repository
http://www.apache.org/download.cgi/repository/commons-lang/jars/commons-lang-1.4.jar
would begin to use the mirrors more appropriately (if the maven client handles redirects appropriately.
better yet, how about a separate virtual host just for downloads that is an implementation of the ASF Repository.
http://download.apache.org/jakarta/commons/lang/jars/commons-lang-1.4.jar http://download.apache.org/struts/distributions/struts-x.x.zip http://download.apache.org/xml/xerces/jars/xerces-x.x.jar http://download.apache.org/xml/xerces/distributions/xerces-x.x.zip
the download.cgi could handle all requests to the virtual host and properly redirect the user to a mirror.
-mark
Henri Yandell wrote:
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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