<div dir="ltr">The <a href="http://ftp.admb-project.org">ftp.admb-project.org</a> is just a temporary download site. Eventually, all release<div>downloads will be from github which has download counters. I will work on this</div><div>next week.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Arni Magnusson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnima@hafro.is" target="_blank">arnima@hafro.is</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The migration to a new download server was discussed at the developer meeting in Reykjavik, while several ADMB Foundation members were connected with Skype.<br>
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As we bid Google Code farewell, it's worth revisiting some of the points raised in section 6 of the report (<a href="http://admb-project.org/developers/workshop/reykjavik-2013/5thDevelopersWorkshopReport.pdf" target="_blank">http://admb-project.org/<u></u>developers/workshop/reykjavik-<u></u>2013/<u></u>5thDevelopersWorkshopReport.<u></u>pdf</a>) where we said the following.<br>
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[Google Code is obsolete.] It is thus necessary to consider some other way of making ADMB available for download. An ideal alternative service would offer the same benefits as Google Code, i.e.:<br>
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1. Global mirrors, so 100-200 MB can be downloaded fast<br>
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2. Complete history of all items ever uploaded<br>
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3. Very clean and simple webpage, with no instructions. Shows only the<br>
current version of each item by default, but deprecated items can be<br>
shown as well<br>
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4. Download counter for every item<br>
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5. Excellent filter and sort facilities. For example, searching "all<br>
downloads" for "ide" gives a very clear version history of ADMB-IDE.<br>
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I would rate our current setup (<a href="http://ftp.admb-project.org" target="_blank">http://ftp.admb-project.org</a>) as:<br>
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1. GOOD - no mirrors (only UCSB server) but the download speed in Iceland<br>
is fine.<br>
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2. BAD - no history of releases before 11.2.<br>
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3. GOOD - it's simple all right.<br>
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4. BAD - no download counter.<br>
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5. OKAY - I guess we can place different releases in different directories<br>
(named 9.1, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, etc.) to make them easy to find.<br>
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The URL (<a href="http://ftp.admb-project.org" target="_blank">http://ftp.admb-project.org</a>) is rather odd. HTTP and FTP are two different protocols - and our current server is HTTP. So using "ftp" in the URL is misleading and problematic, much like naming an image file foo.tif when it's actually a jpeg file.<br>
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In other words, when I type "<a href="http://ftp.admb-project.org" target="_blank">ftp.admb-project.org</a>" in a web browser, it tries for a while and then gives up, because no such FTP server is found. I think we should either move to a real FTP server and call it <a href="ftp://ftp.admb-project.org" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.admb-project.org</a>, or give the HTTP server a less ambiguous and less problematic name, such as <a href="http://download.admb-project.org" target="_blank">http://download.admb-project.<u></u>org</a>.<br>
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FTP is very primitive, almost charmingly so. HTTP can serve us better if the page displays download counters etc.<br>
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In summary, should we use <a href="ftp://ftp.admb-project.org" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.admb-project.org</a> or <a href="http://download.admb-project.org" target="_blank">http://download.admb-project.<u></u>org</a> as the main URL? Does anyone know how to display download counters?<br>
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I think the counters are useful for the dev team, as they indicate which platforms are most important, guiding decisions regarding old (win32) and experimental (clang or something else) platforms. They also give some idea about ADMB usage worldwide.<br>
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Arni<br>
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P.S. After salvaging everything from Google Code, we should make it clear on the Google Code webpage that the newest version of ADMB is elsewhere. People are still downloading old stuff from there.<span class=""><br>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Johnoel Ancheta wrote:<br>
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That was expected.<span class=""><br>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:52 AM, John Sibert wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/P9kW93QcfpQ/" target="_blank">http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~<u></u>r/arstechnica/index/~3/<u></u>P9kW93QcfpQ/</a><br>
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John Sibert<br>
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST<br>
University of Hawaii at Manoa<br>
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