[vbox-dev] Website UI suggestion: User friendly way to download current version of VirtualBox/VB-ExtensionPack

ST smntov at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 10:24:36 GMT 2018


Hello,

Right now current stable version of VirtualBox/VB-ExtensionPack are
provided in form of versioned links:

https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.16/VirtualBox-5.2.16-123759-Win.exe
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.16/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.16-123759.vbox-extpack

As tech support stuff I need to provide exact URL on the Windows VB
binary/ExtPack to not_so_savvy users, so they can download them (along
with our image file) before we can start helping them. The issue is that
sending them to a website with too much information for different
platforms will cause them confusion. May I ask you, to please provide
up_to_date download links in the form like this:

https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/current/Win/VirtualBox
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/current/Win/VirtualBox_Extension_Pack

Which will always point on the current Windows version of VB/ExtPack?

Thank you!





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