[L2Ork-dev] Register before downloading?

Jonathan Wilkes jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 09:33:19 EDT 2020


On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:04 PM Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 6:15 PM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I can update that page so it doesn't require a login. Where should
>> those links point?
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>
> All of the links to https://git.purrdata.net/amorsi/purr-data presumably are broken. Also, the "Windows and OSX" link points to https://github.com/jonwwilkes/purr-data/releases which hasn't been updated in a while. The easiest thing would be to just have https://www.purrdata.net/ forward to https://agraef.github.io/purr-data/, which also has all the information and looks much prettier IMHO. ;-)
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>> However, for cloning the repo we seem to be stuck with the login requirement.
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>
> Needing to register just to *clone* the source repo? That's insane. Did that come flying in with the most recent Gitlab update as well?
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>> If this is a problem our only course of action is to jettison Gitlab.
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>
> Or maybe downgrade to the previous Gitlab version which seemed to work a lot better?

There are too many regular bug fixes to too many moving parts to make
that feasible for a public-facing serving like Gitlab.

I'll have another look for a workaround. But if there isn't one then
these are our only options.

-Jonathan

>
> Albert
>
>
>> But that's a huge task and someone other than me would have to do all
>> the boring infrastructure adjustments for issue tracker, CI/runners,
>> etc.
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> >
>> > You can find proper information and get what you want on the GitHub mirror:
>> >
>> > https://agraef.github.io/purr-data/ (website)
>> > https://github.com/agraef/purr-data/releases/tag/2.15.2 (latest release)
>> > https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=purr-data&project=home%3Aaggraef (OBS packages)
>> > https://github.com/agraef/purr-data/wiki/Installation#linux (detailed Linux installation instructions)
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > Albert
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM Antonio Roberts <antonio at hellocatfood.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm attempting to download Purr Data for Ubuntu but when I click on
>> >> the download links in this website https://www.purrdata.net/ it asks
>> >> me to register first. Is this a bug? Can I download without
>> >> registering first?
>> >>
>> >> Kind regards,
>> >>
>> >> Antonio
>> >>
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