404 error while downloading latest compiler https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.tar.gz

[Phanindra Alamuri]

Getting 404 error for the following URL-

https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.tar.gz

Not able to download the latest compiler-latest file. We are using broccoli-closure-compiler

which tries to download from the above URL and is failing to install the package.

[Bradford Smith]

The metrics we have show that downloads of the pre-compiled files from dl.google.com are very near zero each month.

It seems that nearly everyone uses Maven or NPM to install closure-compiler.

We're trying to streamline our external release process with the ultimate goal of being able to release more frequently.

Since no one (for a small but apparently non-zero value of "no one") seemed to use these links, and uploading to them is more tedious than you would expect, we decided to drop them from our process.

We updated the binary download page to reflect this, but failed to make an announcement.

https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Binary-Downloads

Sorry about that.

If fetching the compiler via Maven or NPM doesn't work for you, the alternative is to build from source.

https://github.com/google/closure-compiler#building-it-yourself

Bradford

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[Alec Smecher]

Hi all,

Thanks, Bradford, that's helpful -- we were using the download link but will move to npm instead.

Just a note that the "Getting Started" documentation for the Closure compiler (https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/gettingstarted_app) still specifies the old download URL.

Regards,
Alec

[Jackie Han]

So if we still want to download a single jar file and don't want to build from source, we can download it from https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.javascript/closure-compiler

[chad.kill...@banno.com]

Also, the npm package google-closure-compiler-java is pretty much only the jar files.

[Bradford Smith]

A helpful user created an issue to follow / fix here.

https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/issues/3663

I'm consolidating the info I have from various threads into that issue.

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