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fdopen / opam-repository-mingw

windows package repository for OPAM (mingw and msvc)
https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/
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Hosting installers on github instead of dropbox #26

Closed andyli closed 7 years ago

andyli commented 7 years ago

I would like to use the installer in a CI environment. While it works nicely at the moment, in the past, I had issues with using dropbox for hosting dependencies, caused by the download limit (P.S. there were only ~10 builds per day). Would you use github release instead? You can attach arbitrary files to a release.

fdopen commented 7 years ago

I'm aware of this problem and already moved many binaries to bintray.com (see 6180653150ab51388730f9dce8185ed82c050465 ).

However, I didn't move opam32.tar.xz and opam64.tar.xz. They need stable URLs that don't change every time the archives are updated (They are changed frequently, when either opam, flexlink, aspcud are updated - or the install scripts; the Cygwin distribution is a rolling release, unexpected changes can happen at any time). Bintray doesn't seem to support this. Already uploaded binaries can't be changed after a certain amount of time. You can only re-upload them to different URLs.

I've now created https://github.com/fdopen/opam-repository-mingw/releases/tag/0.0.0.1 . But I'm not sure if I can still replace the binaries in three or six months...

fdopen commented 7 years ago

I've replaced now all dropbox links with links to https://github.com/fdopen/opam-repository-mingw/releases/tag/0.0.0.1 now. The old links will however continue to work.