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#390 Make outdated spins unavailable for download
Closed: Invalid Opened by robyduck.

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We have some spins which are rather outdated, a few perhaps are even dead. We should make it impossible to access the download tab in these spin pages.

Solution:
* Check on the JSON file if the spin is available before displaying the spin page with the download tab
* Check and remove variables (curr_id), if they are used outside the download tab

I would discourage the ability to remove older spins from being downloaded.

The only exception i could think of is if the last version of the spin is already on an EOL version of Fedora. This would mean a person could still download a spin version that's 1.5 years old.

A thought would be not to necessarily delete the spins page but maybe add it to a spins.fp.o/archive/ location.

Actually the only spin which is not EOL is the Games Spin. All the others are <= Fedora 14.

As we have the globalvar.py file for the curr_id I've hidden the download tab for now (otherwise there appeared Fedora 18 Games Spin!), but if we have other solutions they are welcome.\
It's not a problem changing the variables with the number of the release (i.e. 17 instead of curr_id) when a spin isn't available for the last version of Fedora, but changing it, will break the translation strings...not a good fix.

Fedora.next is around the corner, we will drop spins.fpo for the next release and will redesign the pages. See #248 to know more.
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