[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> On 2 February 2010 20:02, Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl> wrote:
>> I think about adding the files on SF to
>> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases. The hard (time consuming)
>> part is adding links to it.

It cannot hardly be faster than mkdir releases and rsync 
frs.sourceforge.net/some.path/lazarus.

> 
> It shouldn't be... In fact it will probably be less work than the
> current process of publishing software on SourceForge.
> 
> With a ftp site you simply create a new release folder "v0.9.28.3" and
> upload the various files into there. Update the "current" symbolic
> link. Done! You only need one link on the website.
> 
>   ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/current
> 

That is a good idea, just what I had in mind, except that will need some 
restructuring of the current directory layout, because currently you 
choose first the OS and the version, so links in the wiki (per OS) don't 
need to be updated as much.

> 
> "current" will always be a symbolic link to the latest release. At
> this moment it will be:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/v0.9.28.3/
> 
> 
> The developers can browse "current" and simply download the binary
> they need for their platform. This process has been done for years by
> just about everybody. For one, most Linux distros release new versions
> like that.
>  
> As far as I know the already available download binaries are correctly
> named indicating what it is and for what target or platform, so
> nothing needs to change there either.
> 

Vincent