Re: lilypond.org/download: website page and directory

[Phil Holmes]

"Federico Bruni" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> Il giorno ven 22 apr 2016 alle 13:46, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> ha 
> scritto:
> > "Federico Bruni" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
> > news:address@hidden
> > > Hi folks
> > >
> > > At the moment, the URL lilypond.org/download lists the contents of a 
> > > directory:
> > > http://lilypond.org/download
> >
> > I think having a directory list is convenient if you want to grab an 
> > earlier version?
> >
> > > But it would be also a nice URL for language negotiation for the 
> > > website, as for example:
> > > http://lilypond.org/manuals
> > >
> > > I think that lilypond.org/download should serve the website page which 
> > > is currently available only for specific languages (that is, with the 
> > > .html extension):
> > > http://lilypond.org/download.html
> > > http://lilypond.org/download.fr.html
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > This implies that we should rename the download/ directory and change 
> > > all the references to it in Documentation (and scripts?).
> > >
> > > What do you think about it?
> >
> > I assume this would require changes to GUB? I always get a bit nervous 
> > about that.
>
> I understand, but this simple change should not cause any problem.
>
> I can send a pull request to gpercival/gub with a patch which renames all 
> occurrences of lilypond.org/download with lilypond.org/tarballs (or 
> lilypond.org/downloads, or whatever you think is best).

I think lilypond.org/downloads

> Then someone should rename the directory on the server before running gub.

Let me know when you want this doing.

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Phil Holmes