--- a/website/download.html
+++ b/website/download.html
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@
<td><a href="#source">Source</a></td>
<td><a href="#rpms">Rpm/deb packages</a></td>
<td><a href="BUGS.html">Known bugs</a></td>
- <td><a href="#otherbinary">Other binary packages</a></td>
<td><a href="#ports">Bsd and Mac ports</a></td>
- <td><a href="#filters">Filters</a> </td>
+ <td><a href="filters/filters.html">Filters</a> </td>
<td><a href="#translations">Translations</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
@@ -99,7 +98,11 @@
<p>New and updated filters are sometimes
<a href="filters/filters.html">available</a> before the next
- Recoll release.</p>
+ Recoll release. As far as I know, all current filters are
+ fully compatible with older Recoll releases (from 1.13), so
+ you can install new or updated filters on
+ older Recoll packages and gain new file type support without
+ destabilizing your search setup.</p>
<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
@@ -299,8 +302,8 @@
<h3>Mandriva</h3>
<blockquote>
- <p><b>Mandriva linux one 2010 using Qt 4 and the Xapian version
- from the Mandriva repository.</b>:
+ <p>Mandriva linux one 2010 using Qt 4 and the Xapian version
+ from the Mandriva repository.:
<a href="mandriva2010/recoll-1.16.2-1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.16.2-1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
@@ -311,6 +314,8 @@
<h2><a name="otherbinary">Binary bundles</a></h2>
+ <p><i>There are currently no more binary bundles. Section kept as
+ placeholder</i>.</p>
<p>These are just prebuilt trees (without the source files).
Xapian is statically linked. They still depend on Qt. For
Solaris, you should be able to find a Qt package on
@@ -319,16 +324,11 @@
<p><a href="usermanual/rcl.install.html">Installation
instructions here</a>.</p>
- <h3>FreeBSD</h3>
+ <h3><a name="freebsd">FreeBSD</a></h3>
<blockquote>
- <p>The FreeBSD ports used to track the Recoll and Xapian releases quite
- closely, so there was actually little point in using the
- following, but updates have stopped for some time.</p>
- <p><b>FreeBSD 7.4 i386 Qt 4.7.3</b> Statically linked to
- Xapian 1.2.7 with --disable-sse:
- <a href="freebsd/recoll-1.16.2-FreeBSD-7.4-STABLE.tgz">
- recoll-1.16.2-FreeBSD-7.4-STABLE.tgz</a>
- </p>
+ <p>The FreeBSD people have succeeded in terminally pissing me
+ off which is quite hard to do. There will be no more FreeBSD
+ support on this site.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Solaris</h3>
@@ -342,28 +342,8 @@
<h2><a name="ports">Ports</a></h2>
- <h3>FreeBSD ports</h3>
- <p>There are ports for both xapian-core
- and recoll in the standard tree, you may just need to update
- your ports (cvsup, portsnap), or you can get the ports from
- the FreeBSD site.
- <a href="http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/databases/xapian-core">
- xapian port</a>
- <a href="http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/deskutils/recoll">
- recoll port</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p class="important">The ports in the standard FreeBSD tree
- have been stuck to older xapian and recoll versions for
- obscure reasons (the patches for xapian 1.2 have been in the
- bug report system for months). As frustrated maintainer of the
- FreeBSD Xapian and Recoll ports, I hereby make
- available <a href="files/xapian+recoll-ports.tgz">the
- port directories </a>that should be in the port tree if the world
- was perfect. Just extract this anywhere and <em>make</em>
- away!
- </p>
-
+ <h3>FreeBSD</h3>
+ <p><a href="#freebsd">See above</a>.</p>
<h3>Mac port</h3>
<p>It seems that Recoll will sometimes find data that Spotlight