Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [cfinck] 36643: Update some links properly and update the description of Opera (sounds stupid to use the same for Firefox and Opera)

[Aleksey Bragin]

Using "latest-X.0" looks more correct than specifying exact version
number two times.
WBR,
Aleksey.
On Oct 4, 2008, at 5:00 PM, cfinck(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
>   Author: cfinck
>  Date: Sat Oct  4 08:00:33 2008
>  New Revision: 36643
>  URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=36643&view=rev
>  Log:
>  Update some links properly and update the description of Opera
>  (sounds stupid to use the same for Firefox and Opera)
>  Modified:
>      trunk/rosapps/applications/downloader/downloader.xml
>  Modified: trunk/rosapps/applications/downloader/downloader.xml
>  URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/rosapps/applications/
>  downloader/downloader.xml?rev=36643&r1=36642&r2=36643&view=diff
>  ======================================================================
>  ========
>  --- trunk/rosapps/applications/downloader/downloader.xml
>  [iso-8859-1] (original)
>  +++ trunk/rosapps/applications/downloader/downloader.xml
>  [iso-8859-1] Sat Oct  4 08:00:33 2008
>  @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
>                         <licence>MPL/GPL/LGPL</licence>
>                         <version>2.0.0.17</version>
>                         <description>The most popular and one of the best free Web
>  Browsers out there.</description>
>  -
> <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/
>  releases/latest-2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.0.17.exe</
>  location>
>  +
> <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/
>  releases/2.0.0.17/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.0.17.exe</
>  location>
>                 </application>
>                 <application name="Opera">
>                         <regname>Opera</regname>
>                         <licence>Freeware</licence>
>                         <version>9.26</version>
>  -                      <description>The most popular and one of the best free Web
>  Browsers out there.</description>
>  +                      <description>The popular Opera Browser with many advanced
>  features and including a Mail and BitTorrent client.</description>
>                         <location>http://mirror.nwps.ws/opera/win/926/en/
>  Opera_9.26_Classic_Setup.exe</location>
>                 </application>
>                 <application name="Thunderbird 1.5">
>  @@ -26,20 +26,20 @@
>                         <licence>MPL/GPL/LGPL</licence>
>                         <version>1.5.0.14</version>
>                         <description>The most popular and one of the best free Mail
>  Clients out there.</description>
>  -                      <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/
>  thunderbird/releases/latest-1.5/win32/en-US/Thunderbird%20Setup%
>  201.5.0.14.exe</location>
>  +                      <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/
>  thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.14/win32/en-US/Thunderbird%20Setup%
>  201.5.0.14.exe</location>
>                 </application>
>                 <application name="Thunderbird 2.0">
>                         <regname>Mozilla Thunderbird (2.0.0.16)</regname>
>                         <licence>MPL/GPL/LGPL</licence>
>                         <version>2.0.0.16</version>
>                         <description>The most popular and one of the best free Mail
>  Clients out there.</description>
>  -                      <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/
>  thunderbird/releases/latest-2.0/win32/en-US/Thunderbird%20Setup%
>  202.0.0.16.exe</location>
>  +                      <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/
>  thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.17/win32/en-US/Thunderbird%20Setup%
>  202.0.0.17.exe</location>
>                 </application>
>                 <application name="SeaMonkey">
>                         <regname>SeaMonkey (1.1.9)</regname>
>                         <version>1.1.9</version>
>                         <description>Mozilla Suite is alive. This is the one and
> only
>  Browser, Mail, Chat, and Composer bundle you will ever need.</
>  description>
>  -
> <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/
>  releases/1.1.9/seamonkey-1.1.9.en-US.win32.installer.exe</location>
>  +
> <location>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/
>  releases/1.1.12/seamonkey-1.1.12.en-US.win32.installer.exe</location>
>                 </application>
>                 <application name="Mozilla ActiveX Control">
>                         <regname>Mozilla ActiveX Control v1.7.12 (ReactOS
> special)</
>  regname>
>

[Colin Finck]

Aleksey Bragin wrote:
>   Using "latest-X.0" looks more correct than
> specifying exact version
>  number two times. 
Why that? It's actually the opposite :-P
The "latest-*" directories on most FTP Servers (also Mozilla's) are just
symlinks to the real directories for each version. If a new version is
released, the symlink is updated, so the old link will be dead.
As long as we specify the exact version in the links, they will always work
unless the file is really deleted from the server.
Best regards,
Colin