A dialog box that opens once the download link is clicked, could do the job. The dialog box could then provide the donation button and perhaps a thank you note.
Moderator: agryson
A dialog box that opens once the download link is clicked, could do the job. The dialog box could then provide the donation button and perhaps a thank you note.
Just in case the hint was not understand correctly, check the checksum and see for yourself, i will put it more bluntly.
No, checksum changes on a daily basis. For FreeCAD 0.18 and FreeCAD 0.19 AppImage and DMG files.
Why would the checksum change for 0.18 on a daily basis?
Because that is how we have it set up. FreeCAD 0.18 AppImages underwent 2 migrations. Py2/Qt4 -> Py3/Qt5 and from using PPA to Conda as a basis for the AppImage. Things haven't stabilized yet and there are some know issues still. When a report is made and somebody does something about it. That will get picked up in less then 24h. The same on Mac side with DMGs. As a side effect, checksum will therefore change on a daily basis. With FreeCAD 0.19 AppImages we are starting to get some good results. Therefore there is a chance we will lower the build/deploy frequency around first FreeCAD 0.19 point release. But when somebody will fix some reported issue and recreate the AppImage/DMG, by triggering the build with PR, somebody else will still need to create a PR, with updated checksum for the web page, and somebody else will need to deploy it on host.
No. Travis is creating AppImages and DMGs and uploads them to GitHub. It doesn't do any branching/tagging or anything like that.If that was the case we would see the downstream packaging repos bumping their checksum of the 0.18 FreeCAD on a daily basis as well, right?
I see. Alrighty then. So back the approach of using a link to the SHA file instead.
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