Use S3 for the D2 URL template

[brad-anderson]

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[brad-anderson]

@WalterBright This one too?

[WalterBright]

I was going to wait on that until the release is actually uploaded to AWS.

[brad-anderson]

Alright. Thanks.

[andralex]

We need to have download statistics for any site we use. Let's hold off on this until we figure what S3 offers us. Otherwise, let's change the site to the newly created dlang.org/downloads.

[andralex]

That should be the new short downloads.dlang.org URL.

[brad-anderson]

Updated with downloads.dlang.org base URLs.

@braddr Could we get https://github.com/downloads/D-Programming-Language/dmd/curl-7.24.0-dmd-win32.zip uploaded to S3? Then the whole installer will be switched over and we'll be safe from Github's disappearing file hosting.

@WalterBright Is /other/dm856c.zip the correct file for DMC? Before it just used dmc.zip from ftp.digitalmars.com but I noticed the downloads page had versioned dmc uploads available so I switched over to those.

[WalterBright]

On 6/18/2013 9:22 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:

Updated with downloads.dlang.org base URLs.

@braddr https://github.com/braddr Could we get
https://github.com/downloads/D-Programming-Language/dmd/curl-7.24.0-dmd-win32.zip
uploaded to S3? Then the whole installer will be switched over and we'll be
safe from Github's disappearing file hosting.

@WalterBright https://github.com/WalterBright Is /other/dm856c.zip
http://downloads.dlang.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/other/dm856c.zip
the correct file for DMC? Before it just used dmc.zip from ftp.digitalmars.com
but I noticed the downloads page had versioned dmc uploads available so I
switched over to those.

I use dmc.zip, rather than a versioned one, so that existing URLs always point
to the latest and do not need updating.

[braddr]

@eco it's added, and I submitted a pull request to update the dlang.org website with the right path, it's not in the /releases tree but the /other tree.

[brad-anderson]

@braddr Thanks. I've updated this pull request with that url.

[brad-anderson]

@WalterBright At work we often have to link our latest version to our customers and having a simple URL you can remember or copy and paste is definitely the easiest way. What we did was used an HTTP redirect which has the added benefit of preserving the versioned file name so end users can tell what they just downloaded. Best of both worlds.

[MartinNowak]

What's the state of this?

[brad-anderson]

It's still ready to go.

[brad-anderson]

@braddr Could we get the new dmc 8.57 uploaded to S3? I'll update this pull request.

[brad-anderson]

Updated. This is ready to go once dm857c.zip gets uploaded to S3.

[braddr]

all set: http://downloads.dlang.org/other/

[brad-anderson]

@braddr Thanks

[MartinNowak]

Now will someone take the honour to merge this?

[brad-anderson]

@braddr Looks like Walter did an unversioned update to the zip file to fix a mistake a couple hours before you uploaded. Can you confirm it's the latest version of http://ftp.digitalmars.com/Digital_Mars_C++/Patch/dm857c.zip that was uploaded?

Relevant NG discussion: http://forum.dlang.org/post/ktf0gf$1q0t$1@digitalmars.com

[braddr]

I can confirm I downloaded it after he said he uploaded the second version. You can also confirm by downloading both and checking.

[brad-anderson]

I have no idea why I didn't think to just check myself. Sorry about that. Checked by md5 just to be sure. We're all good still.

[WalterBright]

Checking is easy. Just run scppn.exe with no arguments, and it'll say 8.57. The bad one says:

C:\cbx\ztc>scppn
Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Version 8.55.0n
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 2000-2013.  All Rights Reserved.
Written by Walter Bright
*****BETA TEST VERSION*****
http://www.digitalmars.com

[brad-anderson]

@WalterBright Good to know. Oh, and while you are in here maybe click that Merge button :P.

[WalterBright]

Given @andralex 's comment above, I'd like to leave it to him.

[brad-anderson]

@andralex Please merge. Adding Visual-D will conflict with this. There are no outstanding concerns.

[brad-anderson]

@WalterBright Could you merge this? Andrei's question about stats was addressed elsewhere. This is ready to go and is holding up my addition of Visual-D.