Re: website & ftp downloads update

[Gregory Casamento]

Marco,

Forgive the top post, but you have a point.  I think we should make the downloads page use http rather than ftp for downloads giving that the vast majority of browsers have dropped the ftp protocol. 

GC

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 18:36 Marco Cawthorne <marco@icculus.org> wrote:

On 2023-10-19 09:14:32 -0700 Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after discussing at the last meeting that it is fine to let the
> dynamic
> download page go and centralize all download links in one place.
>
> Did so.
>
> I took the time then to check all package versions and upload the
> missing tarballs on our ftp site, so that e.g. debian finds them and
> packagers are happy again. As I went I also checked all latest release
> present.
>
> We had a strange mix of links without files or old links.
>
> https://home.gnustep.org/resources/downloads.html
>
> Of course, lots more to do, but this will help quite a bit to prevent
> confusion.
>
> Riccardo
>

Thank you!

Just a minor thought:
I was wondering about the download links on the page. They still use
the ftp:// protocol which has regrettably been phased out by every
major browser.

There are http links to those, so I was wondering if they should be
changed to make them more accessible. I remember the old wiki used
them too.

-- Marco