Final Notice: BinTray is shutting down 1-May (that's SATURDAY)
Bintray is “sunsetting” on the 1st of May. At that time, you will be unable to download boost releases from there. Before that time, their service will be occasionally interrupted. The web site has been updated, all the download links now refer to https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/ <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/> Example: Instead of downloading from: https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_76_0.tar.gz <https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_76_0.tar.gz> You should download from: https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_76_... <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_76_0.tar.gz> This applies to all releases from 1.63.0 onward (The pre-1.63 releases are still hosted at SourceForge) — Marshall
On 2021-04-29 19:34, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
Bintray is “sunsetting” on the 1st of May. At that time, you will be unable to download boost releases from there. Before that time, their service will be occasionally interrupted.
It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...).
(The pre-1.63 releases are still hosted at SourceForge)
Actually I'm currently using SourceForge for automated downloads as this seems to be the only place where you can download all official releases in a uniform manner, which is important when the version number is merely a parameter. However it does not work for all betas and release candidates, and it's an external service that could change anytime as well. It's not necessary for Boost to host the actual downloads themselves, but I think a redirect service to the actual download URLs would be good for such use cases, ideally also covering betas and release candidates. (Another problem regarding automated downloads are the missing signatures, but that's probably too off-topic here.) Thanks!
On May 4, 2021, at 2:37 PM, Peppard via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On 2021-04-29 19:34, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
Bintray is “sunsetting” on the 1st of May. At that time, you will be unable to download boost releases from there. Before that time, their service will be occasionally interrupted.
It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...).
Changing once in four years is “not persistent”? — Marshall
Bintray is “sunsetting” on the 1st of May. At that time, you will be unable to download boost releases from there. Before that time, their service will be occasionally interrupted. It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...). Changing once in four years is “not persistent”?
A URL redirecting script on boost.org would be more persistent.
On 2021-05-06 07:48, Boris via Boost wrote:
Bintray is “sunsetting” on the 1st of May. At that time, you will be unable to download boost releases from there. Before that time, their service will be occasionally interrupted. It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...). Changing once in four years is “not persistent”?
A URL redirecting script on boost.org would be more persistent.
Hopefully so, yes. But more importantly, by using an external service you might be depending on them to decide whether the next change will be in four years or tomorrow. And you're also restricting yourself, as it makes switching to another provider more painful. Also take a look what the current external service is doing, they are forwarding (at least partially) to another third party, but their links appear to be local. Then finally - as I tried to argue initially as well - there currently seems to be no uniform way to automatically download all official releases and also the betas and release candidates, so persistence might not be the only argument. One thing I'm not quite sure about though is how that would impact the (non-existing?) privacy policy. (OT: boost.org is using multiple third parties - also not exactly privacy friendly ones -, so it should have a privacy policy, no?)
Peppard wrote:
It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...).
On one hand, it does seem useful to provide e.g. download.boost.org/boost-1.76.0/boost_1_76_0.7z as a redirect. On the other, we already have problems with spiders mirroring the entire boost.org site along with all the downloads, and these problems may be exacerbated by moving the URLs to boost.org (as they would be on the same domain then.)
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 4:11 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Peppard wrote:
It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...).
On one hand, it does seem useful to provide e.g.
download.boost.org/boost-1.76.0/boost_1_76_0.7z
as a redirect.
On the other, we already have problems with spiders mirroring the entire boost.org site along with all the downloads, and these problems may be exacerbated by moving the URLs to boost.org (as they would be on the same domain then.)
But with a redirector you could bounce such spiders at the early redirector point. -- -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell -- Don't Assume Anything -- No Supone Nada -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net
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