On 12/15/2017 12:53 PM, Juergen Funk Mailinglist wrote:
Hi Mike
1. Creating a redirect at TDF side imposes additional load to our server
infrastructure;
2. Users will depend on reliability of TDF servers wrt this (in terms of their
state, correctness of the link, and also possible man-in-the-middle problems
with modified links pointing to malware) - note that LO downloads themselves
are served from multiple mirrors, but this kind of redirection can't work using
mirrors
I have mean directly from Microsoft not from TDF.
As I mentioned, there's no "Latest VS 2015 redist" static link on their
side. Only "VS 2015 redist version X.Y.Z", which is the same as
embedding this specific version into installer.
Also: at the time of creating the installer, we could possibly check
that our embedded redist is ~current, so users would have reasonably low
chance to get update request related to newly installed software (taking
into account our rate of releases). OTOH, if a user chooses to download
and install an out-of-date version, then it's not unexpected that, e.g.,
LibreOffice itself would warn about "newer version available"; so I
don't see anything unexpected here on redist side as well.
--
Best regards,
Mike Kaganski
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