downloads-examples
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Downloads examples
Contributors
Examples
Mozilla Firefox
- Extension (single instance) e.g. NoScript
- Extension version history (multiple instances of one app) e.g. NoScript history
iusethis
- Download page, e.g. http://osx.iusethis.com/app/peek-a-boo
- No version history or release notes
- Does not list older downloads
- Appcast, e.g. http://osx.iusethis.com/appcast/igtd
- Every download page has a related appcast RSS feed (with autodiscovery)
iusethis provides RSS appcasts with Sparkle extensions. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"
xmlns:iusethis="http://osx.iusethis.com/ns/rss"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:sparkle="http://www.andymatuschak.org/xml-namespaces/sparkle"
version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Appcast for iGTD</title>
<link>http://osx.iusethis.com/app/igtd</link>
<description>version history with a sparkle via iusethis.com</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<iusethis:universal>1</iusethis:universal>
<iusethis:homepage>http://bargiel.home.pl/iGTD/</iusethis:homepage>
<iusethis:developer>bartek:bargiel</iusethis:developer>
<iusethis:usecount>517</iusethis:usecount>
<iusethis:tags>GTD productivity get things done</iusethis:tags>
<sparkle:appLicense>Freeware</sparkle:appLicense>
<item>
<title>iGTD 1.4.5.5</title>
<link>http://osx.iusethis.com/app/versions/7961#ver_35136</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p>... appcast description goes here ...</p>]]></description>
<guid isPermaLink="false">35136</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:31:55 -0000</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://bargiel.home.pl/downloads/iGTD.dmg" type="application/octet-stream"/>
<sparkle:shortVersionString>1.4.5.5</sparkle:shortVersionString>
</item>
<!-- ... more appcast items go here .. -->
</channel>
</rss>Some notes about the RSS appcast:
sparkle:appLicenseis something iusethis-specific, something the iusethis team seems to have made up. No idea why they are using the sparkle namespace here...sparkle:shortVersionStringseems to be used instead ofsparkle:version, and I'm not sure why.
VersionTracker
- Download page, e.g. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/3410
- Does not have a direct download link, but a link to a separate page that starts the download
- Has a version history section
- Does not list older downloads
- Has a system requirements section
MySQL Downloads
- Download page, e.g. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html
- Very big page with downloads with different applications, architectures, OSes, etc
- Does not list older downloads
- No version history or release notes
MacUpdate
- Download page, e.g. http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/10225/yum
- Has a version history section
- Does not list older downloads
- Has a direct download link
- Has a system requirements section
WordPress Plugins
WordPress generates plugin pages from a http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt readme.txt] file included with the plugin. It has its own parser and format standards.
Attributes:
- Authors
- Author field from the plugin file and Contributors field from the readme file.
- Version
- Version field from the plugin file.
- Tags (as in categories)
- Tags field from the readme file.
- Last updated time
- Time of last check in to the appropriate directory (trunk/ or the stable tag directory) after a version number change.
- Creation time
- Time of first check in.
From readme.txt
- Contributors
- WordPress.org usernames of contributors.
- Donate link
- Link for receiving donations.
- Tags
- Comma-separated list of keywords.
- Requires at least
- WordPress version requirements.
- Tested up to
- The latest version of WordPress the plugin was tested against.
- Stable tag
- The stable branch of the plugin to use.
- Description
- This is the long description. No limit, and you can use Markdown.
- Installation
- This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. Typically an ordered list.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Questions and answers about the plugin.
- Screenshots
- An ordered list of screenshot descriptions; screenshot image files should be located in the same directory as readme.txt and named screenshot-#.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif).