On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:12:07 -0400 B Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> graphics/paraview and academic/Xyce both have fancy "web 2.0" download > pages, I don't seem to be able to download the sources with either > wget or curl. Those links should be fixed. Xyce is giving me 403 in a browser, and paraview could follow the AUR link as an example. > Maybe the maintainers of these packages could add a note to the > READMEs, saying "sbopkg can't automatically download the source, it > must be downloaded with a javascript-capable browser", something like > that. Precedent for this would be the development/jdk README. We already require direct download links, which I think implies an ability to download via typical command line tools. There may be a few exceptions, such as jdk (truecrypt was, at some point) but I think we'd be better to not allow any more in the future. > Maybe also would be a nice thing to add to the submitter guidelines at > http://slackbuilds.org/guidelines/: "If the source can't be downloaded > non-interactively (e.g. with wget), please make a note of this in your > README." The guidelines explicitly state "direct download link(s) ..." -- Erik _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
