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download.nexusformat.org should be retired #1295

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PeterC-DLS opened this issue Jun 21, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #1287
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download.nexusformat.org should be retired #1295

PeterC-DLS opened this issue Jun 21, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #1287
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PeterC-DLS commented Jun 21, 2023

It is

  1. only available via http://download.nexusformat.org
  2. has many dead links
  3. deployed by a Jenkins jobs
  4. is hosted by RAL unlike our other subdomains which as GH pages
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phyy-nx commented Jun 21, 2023

Without commenting on whether it should be retired, here are the links that would break on the main page (if they are not already broken):

wiki/content]$ grep -i "download.nexusformat.org" *
Latest_News.md:Thursday, October 21, 2010: NeXus Manual moved from the wiki to a *book format*(``http://www.nexusformat.org/Documentation``) (PDF & HTML are available). The revised manual also documents the *class definitions*(``http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/ClassDefinitions.html``) in [NXDL](https://manual.nexusformat.org/nxdl.html). Content has been reorganised and divided into a volume containing the [User Manual](https://manual.nexusformat.org/pdf/NeXusManual.pdf) and a volume containing the *Reference Documentation*(``http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/NeXusRefDoc.pdf``).
Latest_News.md:definitions](http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/Tutorial.html) has
Latest_News.md:Tuesday, April 13, 2010: NeXus API version 4.2.1 has now been released and is available from the [download area](http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/) - see [Nexus\_42\_Release\_Notes](Nexus_42_Release_Notes.html "wikilink") for further information
Latest_News.md:Tuesday, November 28, 2006: A NeXus install kit for Microsoft Windows is [now available](http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/windows) The kit includes the standard NeXus applications as well as libraries for building applications with both [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Nexus_42_Release_Notes.md:documentation](http://download.nexusformat.org/doxygen/html/classNeXus_1_1File.html)
Nexus_43_Release_Notes.md:page](http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/nx43testing.shtml). Issues
NIAC2012.md:    (Sphinx)``http://download.nexusformat.org/sphinx/``
NIAC2012.md:    “NeXus Application Definitions” in ``http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/ClassDefinitions.html``
NIAC2012.md:    currently available at: ``http://download.nexusformat.org/sphinx/``
Telco_20151215.md:download.nexusformat.org/kits. Only useful stuff remaining there would
Telco_20160628.md:        data](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22signal+data%22+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdownload.nexusformat.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml&t=ffsb&ia=web):
Telco_20160628.md:        <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22signal+data%22+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdownload.nexusformat.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml&t=ffsb&ia=web>
TOFRaw.md:(2MB)](http://download.nexusformat.org/TOFRAW/examples/hrp08639.nx4),
TOFRaw.md:(2MB)](http://download.nexusformat.org/TOFRAW/examples/hrp08639.nx5) and
TOFRaw.md:[XML(16MB)](http://download.nexusformat.org/TOFRAW/examples/hrp08639.xml)
TOFRaw.md:DTD](http://download.nexusformat.org/TOFRAW/examples/TOFRAW.xml).

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phyy-nx commented Jun 21, 2023

Straw poll from code camp: it makes sense to remove this download.nexusformat.org as it is redundant to the existing web pages. For example, the NAPI internals pdf is linked on download.nexusformat.org (dead link), but is also linked from manual.nexusformat.org.

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