> On May 2, 2021, at 6:29 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Dos compatible filenames are irrelevant for URL, just give
>> the file ANY name you like after downloading the file, it
>> is better to have search-friendly URL which contain both
>> name and version. Something like krn386x.zip is ridiculous
>> for people who want to google for freedos kernel 2042 i386.
>
> I don't think Ibiblio is a strong SEO for FreeDOS topics, despite our
> having the FreeDOS files archive hosted there. (Likely this is because
> much of Ibiblio [whether or not it is FreeDOS] is just a directory
> listing of files, which doesn't rank very highly for SEO.) If you
> search for anything "freedos" you'll first get the FreeDOS website,
> the FreeDOS wiki, Wikipedia, and then a bunch of article websites like
> opensource.com or arstechnica.
I think the HTML pages generated by the repo management utility has helped a
lot with that. When I test search on google for some programs, they
occasionally show up.
>
>> Actually you could use descript.ion or similar metadata to
>> have the file name "kernelx.zip" (x = binary, s = source,
>> if you like to make that distinction) or "kernel.zip" and
>> add the other information to the descript.ion which makes
>> it visible for enhanced versions of DIR. Or just use LFN.
>>
>
> FYI that Ibiblio is on a web server, and the web server doesn't
> understand descript.ion files. It just displays a list of files.
>
> So providing a descript.ion file on the server doesn't actually help
> the user, who just wants to download a zip file.
>
> Jim
Maybe we should do something like the repo management stuff for the raw
mirrored zips.
>
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