Confusion: Where to download release?

[pjotrek-b]

At our archive, we are not only using Bagger/BagIt extensively, but also trying to promote its use for exchange with others (institution/individuals). Bagger is a great tool for making hashcode/fixity checks easily accessible for anyone. Thank you so very much!

But: When trying to send "a link" to where to download Bagger to another institution, I realized that it's quite unclear, where to download the most recent LoC transfer-tools (bagger/bagit) - and which file actually...

I'm not complaining, but I think it'd be great to have a simple html-page that points to the most current releases - or did I simply not find it?

Detailed information:

Here's a summary of things that add to the confusion:

• Official download from Sourceforge or GitHub? On the LoC Transfer-Tools Sourceforge site, it says that the project has moved to GitHub:

  As of 2013-07-12, this project may now be found at https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java

  ...where I can find the source-code, but no release packages.

• The Sourceforge site seems to contain Bagger releases (currently up to v2.1.3): http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils/files/loc-bagger/

  Now, not being sure if those releases are actually still maintained (or rather found on GitHub), there is a message that causes more insecurity if I'm right:

  "Looking for the latest version? Download bagit-4.4-bin.zip (3.5 MB)"

  Which is actually the BagIt library/commandline application.

• "loc-bil-java-library" = "bagit-java" Since the Bagger-releases on Sourceforge (still) work fine, I thought I'd check the date of the BagIt library/CLI releases on Sourceforge and compare them with the most recent changes on GitHub.

  Then I realized that:

  • on GitHub it's called "bagit-java", but on Sourceforge it's "loc-bil-java-library"
  • There seem to have been commits/releases on GitHub (v4.9.0), but not on SourceForge (v4.4)

  So now I'm even more insecure about the Bagger builds on Sourceforge... :(

Thank you very much in advance.

[dbrunton]

This is a confusing scenario. The current release for bagger is here:

https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagger/releases/tag/v2.2

I'll update the README on the front page.

[dbrunton]

@pjotrek-b the bagit-java library also has releases on GitHub, here:

https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java/releases

Again, I think there may be some documentation that still points to the old location.

[pjotrek-b]

Thank you very much! I must admit that I didn't know where to find the "releases" on GitHub... Shame on me ;)

About the updated README for Bagger: Wouldn't it be better not to include a certain version number in the link, but rather point to https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagger/releases/latest or https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagger/releases ?