[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] old releases on downloads

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Friday 2011-06-24 17:44:18 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:42:10AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Friday 2011-06-24 02:09:08 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > 
> > > From cf7d7e8fea89e2880aa7bedf240515ae1f6b1e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:01:42 +0200
> > > Subject: [PATCH] Link to the old releases
> > > 
> > > ---
> > >  src/download |    8 ++++++++
> > >  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/src/download b/src/download
> > > index 60b86c1..066956e 100644
> > > --- a/src/download
> > > +++ b/src/download
> > > @@ -211,3 +211,11 @@ compatible with the 0.6 ABI and API.
> > >  <a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.7.1.tar.gz.asc">PGP signature</a><br />
> > >  <a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.7.1.changelog">Changelog</a><br />
> > >  </p>
> > > +
> > > +<a name="old"></a><h3>
> > > +Old ffmpeg releases</h3>
> > 
> > I'd say "Unmaintained FFmpeg releases", "old" != "unsupported".
> 
> I prefer old

why?

Anyway I don't mind, assuming that the title matches with the actual
content of the section.

> >
> > > +<p>
> > > +Warning, these releases are entirely unsupported and can contain known
> > > +and exploitable security bugs.<br/>
> > 

What about:

The releases which are not listed above are entirely unsupported and
can contain known and exploitable security bugs, and thus we deprecate
and discourage their use.

In case you need them, you can find them in the
<href="releases">releases archive</a>.

> > > +<a href="releases">Old releases</a>
> > 
> > ?
> 
> its a link to the releases directory, did i put a typo in it or
> something ?

I didn't realize "releases" was actually pointing to a page on the web
server.
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