Bill Mercer wrote:
> Personally I like having the history there, especially for older platforms.
> I would suggest you keep the last available version for each platform until a new one is built.
>
> Maybe you could create a cURL graveyard for dead versions, and when we need one we can exhume it from there?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-users [mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 8:39 AM
> To: curl users; libcurl hacking
> Subject: Pruning the download page
>
> Hi friends,
>
> I've always enjoyed the fact that our downlods page is extremely extensive with links to downloads for just about everything you can imagine.
>
> But a whole lot of those downloads are now starting to age and with no updates to those packages in sight. I'm starting to suspect that we do our users a disservice but pointing them to really old crappy curl versions instead of gently "forcing" them to build their own from source instead (and then indirectly perhaps get those newer versions to point to).
>
> The download page is completely generated by a script. I'm considering making it automatically skip all versions that are older than X, where X could be
> 7.20.0 to start with (it was released in February 2010).
>
> Would this make you upset? Will this cause the sky to fall down? Will it make my coffee get sour? Let me know. Silence means you agree with me... =)
>
There are probably legitimate reasons for people to want to find legacy
versions such as testing or resuscitating a system. Obviously needs to be
done with a knowledge that the version isn't secure, etc.

Could your script make two pages, one "current" and one of all releases?
The "current" page would have a link to the "all" page. The "all" page
would have warnings about lack of support, insecure, use at your own risk, etc.

Rich

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Received on 2016-08-18