By alastair on

Is there any way to specify a platform for a project download?

I'm in the process of setting up a website based on Drupal for an open source, cross-platform audio player. It's mostly there, but one thing I'm struggling with is downloads. The player is based around an extensible plugin architecture, and we're hoping to have contributions from the open source community in much the same way as Drupal does. I currently have the project module set up to handle the download of our plugins, but there is no way to specify the platform for which the plugin is compiled (the best I've managed is to put the platform into the "extra information" field - not really ideal). I've run a search on the Drupal website a few times and not turned anything up.

All thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated :)

Many thanks in advance.

Alastair

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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kohlerj’s picture

kohlerj commented

I don't know the Project module, but can you not use a vocabulary to tag each download? When you create a vocabulary you can choose which content types to use it on, so you could restrict that vocabulary to the project nodes.

hth

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alastair commented

Thanks for your quick response and for the suggestion, kohlerj, it's greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, it's not quite what I'm after; if you look at a page for, e.g., the CCK, it lists a number of releases, by version (5.x-1.5 and 4.7.x-1.5-1 for CCK). The current solution is to create a release for each platform (e.g., 1.0.0-mac), but this is not quite right either, as we're effectively creating different versions for each platform. What we actually want is to create one version and provide a download link on that version's page for each of the separate platforms supported.

I hope that makes sense... And thanks again :)