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.
Ack. Had not thought about this. I guess that's why most do not link directly now...
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.
Agreed in general, though grabbing multiple commons components is something that some people need to do now and then (at least I have).
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.
Sounds good to me. In this case, would we rectify the old "components" j-c page to present download links to each of the commons components?
Phil
Hen
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