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Task #3441

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specify link instead of uploading the OXT

Added by Daniel Naber almost 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Our .oxt is about 150 MB in size, and we often have issues uploading it (today: "502 Bad Gateway"). I'd like to be able to specify a link to the external .oxt file, as it used to be possible on the old extension site.


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Actions #1

Updated by Guilhem Moulin almost 4 years ago

  • Assignee set to Christian Lohmaier
Actions #2

Updated by Heiko Tietze almost 4 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (Christian Lohmaier)

You can add just the link at "URL of the Extensions Homepage". Many do so with Github. Does this answer your question?

Actions #3

Updated by Daniel Naber almost 4 years ago

Heiko Tietze wrote:

You can add just the link at "URL of the Extensions Homepage". Many do so with Github. Does this answer your question?

I want to link a specific release, so users can click and download it from our website. Our homepage is linked already.

Actions #4

Updated by Florian Effenberger almost 4 years ago

  • Assignee set to Christian Lohmaier
Actions #5

Updated by Christian Lohmaier almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • Assignee changed from Christian Lohmaier to Heiko Tietze
  • Priority changed from Normal to Low

The upload size limit has been lifted/bumped previously, so I'd rather not add links to external files as a release entry. It would mean our site wouldn't know whether a link works/goes dead/would need constant checking, and of course also would not allow us to add the extension update mechanism in future.

If someone absolutely doesn't want to upload files to our repository, a regular download link in the description can be added, but it won't be treated as a release, so I tend to reject this unless other reasons are brought up...

@Heiko: please decide

Actions #6

Updated by Heiko Tietze over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

Taking Cloph's suggestion to reject this URL-only extensions.

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