[flac-dev] Xiph and Sourceforge downloads sections

MauritsVB mauritsvb at xs4all.nl
Sun Nov 30 04:50:36 PST 2014


How about using Sourceforge only for the most recent version?

It would prevent any possible confusion (or the hassle with SF’s byzantine file interface) and if people are looking for older versions they could always go to http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/.


On 29 Nov 2014, at 05:44, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com> wrote:

> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
>> MauritsVB wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there an ETA for any non-Windows binaries in the pipeline? The page
>>> https://www.xiph.org/flac/download.html still points to the 1.2.1 downloads
>>> on Sourceforge and could use updating to the new binaries.
>> 
>> I changed the link to point to:
>> 
>>    http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/
>> 
>> which has the source tarball and flac-1.3.1-win.zip.
>> 
>>> However, if for
>>> instance the OS X binary is just around the corner it would makes sense to
>>> wait for that.
>> 
>> For that I pointed the link to Homebew. If Ralph wants to provide a DMG
>> file I can add that to the directory above.
>> 
>>> Will the 1.3.1 binaries also be uploaded to the Sourceforge downloads
>>> section (http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/files/flac-win/) ? That
>>> currently still lists 1.2.1 as the latest version.
>> 
>> I'd actually prefer to shut that down all together.
> 
> And instead of that, I uploaded the 1.3.2 windows binaries. Hopefully the
> download count of 1.2.1 will now begin to drop.
> 
> Erik
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