[jbosstools-dev] Why are we still using internal urls on download page instructions ?

Nick Boldt nboldt at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 12:04:59 EDT 2012


Well, either this is a regression from when the jboss.org Magnolia pages 
when haywire, or we never bothered to change this because we're not 
respinning the old 3.0 and 3.1 sites anyway so what difference does it 
make if people are updating from one never-to-be-updated site or another?

N


On 03/19/2012 10:39 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just came by http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/stable/3_0_GA and noticed our instructions still says:
>
> Rather than unpacking the zips below, you can install this release by pointing Eclipse at http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/JBossTools-3.0.3.GA
>
> vs
>
> Rather than unpacking the zips below, you can install this release by pointing Eclipse at http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/helios/
>
> ?
>
> Telling users to point to a fixed URL which never will see updates is wrong AFAIK and I thought we extinguished those long time ago in public instructions ?
>
> /max
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