map download link to distname

[Rainer Müller]

On 07/04/2021 08.04, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2021, at 10:44, Rainer Müller wrote:
> 
>> On 06/04/2021 01.39, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Regarding the specific download link you mentioned, https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/package_files/8183714/download, I see that link on the graphviz web site at http://www.graphviz.org/download/source/ but I don't know where they got it. I can't find that link within their gitlab site. I don't know whether that is what in github parlance would be called a release download or whether it is yet another different type of download which is specific to gitlab for which there is not an equivalent within github.
>>
>> This is also the first time I have seen this. Apparently graphviz publishes this
>> as a "package" on GitLab, which contains artifacts archived after CI pipeline
>> runs. You can locate the resulting files via the "Package Registry" section in
>> the menu.
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/packages/1365772
> 
> Yes, I found "Package Registry" in the GitLab menu, but all I found there was tons of development version artifacts. I could not see a way to show stable version artifacts.

You are right, the list is long, I should have mentioned more details.

I discovered that a descending sort order by version causes 2.46.1 and 2.47.0 to
show up on top. The development builds all use a lower 0.0.<gitsha1> version number.

This way graphviz publishes their tarballs seems rather unique. I have a
suspicion that this is not actually the way this GitLab functionality is meant
to be used. I would not add functionality for this special case to the gitlab
port group unless we discover more projects that use it like this.

Rainer