Hi,

The following documentation download page has many links for the various documentation formats. They are all still pointing to the old 2.4.4 release, and not the latest 2.6.0 release.

http://www.freepascal.org/down/docs/docs-ftp.freepascal.org.var

I remember mentioning this before some years back. If the ftp server is a unix/linux box, may I suggest using symlinks.

eg:

/dist/latest -> symlink to eg /dist/2.6.0/ /dist/2.4.2/docs/
/dist/2.4.4/docs/
/dist/2.6.0/docs/

Then simply update the download links on the above mentioned page to use /dist/latest/ instead of a specific version. Then once a new release happens, only the symlink needs to be updated on the ftp server. Most Linux distros do the same thing on their ftp servers when downloading distro ISO images.

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:

The following documentation download page has many links for the various documentation formats. They are all still pointing to the old 2.4.4 release, and not the latest 2.6.0 release.

No. The reality is simply that the 2.4.4 is not overwritten because ftp.freepascal.org was retracted as not being able to cope with the load.

What is wrong is the index listing ftp.freepascal.org.

There was a cache of mirrors that is not updated properly, thus still linking to the old (no longer valid) site.

I remember mentioning this before some years back. If the ftp server is a unix/linux box, may I suggest using symlinks.

That is strange, since this specific issue was caused by something decided in the week before the 2.6.0 release.

Marco van de Voort wrote

There was a cache of mirrors that is not updated properly, thus still linking to the old (no longer valid) site.

OK.

That is strange, since this specific issue was caused by something decided in the week before the 2.6.0 release.

You didn't understand what I wrote.