Thank you Mr.Massimo Di Pierro. I intend to assimilate your book over the weekend and get back with my views.
On Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 10:18:56 PM UTC+5:30, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Dear Web2py users, > > the link to the book is broken and you can find the new (temporary) link > to the book here: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuik35ayg686de3/web2py_manual_5th.pdf?dl=0 > > One the one side there is an easy fix to a broken link, replace all > references to the new URL. > Yet the problem is bigger and I am very upset. > > I use Dropbox and Dropbox has a public folder. Everything in this folder > had a public direct link. I keep the web2py book there along with talks, > code, etc. and a lot of material I have shared with you over the years, > with my students, and collaborators. These links have been published in > various places outside my control. > > Dropbox has decided to drop support for a default public folder since > September 1, and required that I share it explicitly. I tried that and to > my surprise two bad things happened: > - the new links are different than the original links so they are broken > anyway > - the content of the folder becomes searchable and I do not want that. I > wanted direct links to the content but I do not want everybody to see > everything. > > I emailed them but looks like they have made their mind. Although they > provide a solution to sharing they do not provide a solution to the broken > links to previously shared content. I have been a long term fanboy of > Dropbox but they made a huge mistake and I will probably be moving all my > files somewhere else. This issue is bigger than the link to the web2py > book. > > When I find a new reliable home for my public files, I will replace the > link in the web2py repo. > I apologize for the inconvenience. > > Massimo > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
