Dead links for .NET 4.6 and Get .NET about smallestdotnet

[shanselman]

Thanks, sorry, it's on my list but it's tedious and while I have a lot of issues I have few PRs.

[shanselman]

Oh, and BTW we ARE working on a more official way to do this. @BethMassi

[BethMassi]

@RickStrahl dude, shouldn't you be wind surfing right now? Can we rewrite this in FoxPro? ;-) Seriously, yes, we are working on getting the sites in order. Hope all else is well.

[atifaziz]

I have a lot of issues I have few PRs.

@shanselman 40 issues (27 closed) and 29 PRs (27 closed) to date. 73% doesn't look like a bad ratio. 😶

Oh, and BTW we ARE working on a more official way to do this.

@shanselman As an official replacement for SmallestDotNet? Because it sounds like “Don't waste your time here.”

It's kind of sad that there has to be third party site to provide this though...

@RickStrahl Perhaps the “content management people” ought to be contributing PRs here. Perhaps the links & versions database shouldn't be hard-coded here and ought to be maintained as a simple text file on GitHub that this app then uses.

[shanselman]

@atifaziz What I'm saying is that folks find this useful and that we should make it official and nice and not the mess it is today. I wrote this in an hour years ago and now it gets like 60k views a week. You've correctly pointed out the code is crap, and it is.

PRs appreciated.

[RickStrahl]

I for one really appreciate that this site is here. I point all of my applications that require runtimes at it for people to figure out what they need to download. It's great. And again it's sad that this has to come from a hobby project like this and not from Microsoft.

The big issue isn't code quality or features IMHO. What's important is that the links work :-) and frankly that's a job for somebody at Microsoft because us on the outside we often don't know what the right links are (those that hopefully are a little more permanent).

Heck if somebody @ Microsoft content division could manage a feed of version number, type and download link that would be ideal and probably very easy to manage.

[atifaziz]

@shanselman Just to be clear, I didn't mean to call-out that the code is crap. The code quality isn't the issue (as @RickStrahl also said) because the true value of what you did in an hour is that it's been helping devs & ops for years, and most importantly, in a very straightforward way!

@RickStrahl You mean something like “.NET Framework” downloads but simpler, stable and curated?

[atifaziz]

PRs appreciated.

@shanselman Here you go… #71 😉

[zacglenn]

@shanselman is this issue resolved? If so, may we have it closed?