Re: Validator tarballs missing

On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Andrew Carlson wrote:
> Just a simple question, I don't want to subscribe to anything,  I couldn't
> find the answer in the archives only hits were 2 years old - the source
> for the validator seems to be offline - attempts to download tarball
> result in 404 error.  Will this be resolved?
> 
> from the docs:
> http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html
> 
> url: http://validator.w3.org/validator.tar.gz
> 
> Cannot find tarballs, opensuse repo doesn't seem to have it anymore either.

Thanks for the report.

All release tarballs are available at http://validator.w3.org/dist/ , grab the 
*-0_8_6.tar.gz ones to get the current release.  (Also, you may want to look 
into CVS for some post-0.8.6 fixes especially if you're going to be validating 
non-UTF-8 XML documents, including XHTML ones.)

Looks like some symbolic links to the latest version are MIA (these are the 
ones validator's docs point at):
http://validator.w3.org/validator.tar.gz
http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib.tar.gz

And these are outdated, they point to the 0.8.5 release at the moment:
http://validator.w3.org/dist/validator.tar.gz
http://validator.w3.org/dist/sgml-lib.tar.gz

Received on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:45:31 UTC