Posted by Wade Walker on Jan 15, 2011; 10:38pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/File-extensions-are-confusing-when-downloading-the-signed-release-tp2264004.html

Hi guys,

I noticed when I download https://jogamp.org/deployment/webstart/gluegen-rt.jar, the file actually downloads as gluegen-rt.gz. This seems a bit odd -- is it meant to be this way? I figured it out quickly enough, but it seems like it might be off-putting to new users.

Also, it seems strange to have half the files jarred, and half of them gzipped, and to have them all separate. Couldn't we just make one zip for each platform like we have for autobuilds?

The reason I noticed is that I've been writing a new wiki page telling a user how to quickly download JOGL and set up an Eclipse project that depends on it (at https://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_an_Eclipse_project_that_uses_JOGL), and the section on how to download was painful to write