Hi Mark,
Yes, I noticed the download snapshot, but having had your warning didn't
press it. Like most people, every improvement sourceforge make leaves me
more baffled!
If I get time, I will write a rexx sample script to download all files from
a directory from sourceforge into a subfolder in your download folder. Not
sure how, I could use rexcurl, but perhaps one wouldn't want one of Mark's
utilities as a dependency for an ooRexx sample (although that might be a
good thing). I could do it with ole & IE, but I'm not sure whether that
would work on Linux. Do you have thoughts?
Jon
On 20 January 2014 00:11, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers <
> sahana...@windhorse.biz> wrote:
>
>>
>> If you do not sign into sourceforge, but go to the project, select code
>> SVN repository and navigate to a particular file, so that you see a listing
>> of it, you can then click on the *download this file* link and the file
>> is downloaded using your web browser.
>>
>> Does that not work for you?
>>
>
> Jon,
>
> Yes that does work. But, using decimalFormat as an example.
>
> If you navigate through the tree to get to /incubator/decimalFormat, there
> are 4 files from Lee. There is nothing to indicate to the user that you
> can download a file. Nothing to indicate that if you click on a file you
> are then able to download it. Plus, once you do know that, it is a little
> tedious to download them 1 by 1.
>
> However at the top of that page there is:
>
> Tree [r9856] <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/9856/> /
> incubator<https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/HEAD/tree/incubator/>
> /
> decimalFormat<https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/HEAD/tree/incubator/decimalFormat/>
> / Download Snapshot
>
>
> My assumption was that "Download Snapshot" would download all 4 files as a
> group. Which would certainly be more convenient then clicking on each file
> one by one and downloading them individually.
>
> But, it doesn't. Instead SourceForge takes 5 or 10 minutes to generate a
> 256 MB zip file that, if you do download and unzip, doesn't even contain a
> single decimalFormat file.
>
> As the person who argued to Mike that SourceForge was easy for people to
> use, I can't even think of where to start with an argument that this would
> be good for ooRexx users. ;-)
>
> Anyway, I'm not trying to dissuade you from putting your files in the
> incubator and giving out directions on hot to get them. I think you should.
>
> Maybe we can get SourceForge to fix or enhance the "Download Snapshot" so
> that it works the way I would intuitively expect it to work.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
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