[openssl-dev] Website "Downloads": remove 1.1.0pre1 from list of downloadable files

[Richard Levitte]

In message <569937F1.6000203 at kippdata.de> on Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:18:25 +0100, Rainer Jung <rainer.jung at kippdata.de> said:

rainer.jung> Hi,
rainer.jung> 
rainer.jung> the list of downloadable files on http://openssl.org/source/ contains
rainer.jung> pre1 *and* pre2 files for 1.1. Furthermore pre1 is listed above
rainer.jung> pre2. IMHO pre2 is what people should test and pre1 is no longer
rainer.jung> entitled to be listed on that page. So I suggest to remove pre1 from
rainer.jung> the list.

You're entirely correct.  I'm going in and fixing now.

rainer.jung> I don't know how this list is maintained, if auto-generated or
rainer.jung> manually. It seems the web git is not public.

Our release script should have dealt with it, but it's possible we've
failed to adapt it the pre-release format files.  I'll have a look
later.

rainer.jung> In addition one could wish to put the preferred major version (1.0.2?)
rainer.jung> first in the list. Despite the version explanations in front of the
rainer.jung> list, it would help people to choose the right one. But of course what
rainer.jung> is preferred might change over time and is harder to automate with
rainer.jung> scripting.

Food for thought.  Not promising anything, but will certainly look
into it.

Cheers,
Richard

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