[CWB] Windows binaries: new policy, new upload

[Hardie, Andrew]

Hi folks & esp. all you users of CWB on windows!

Recently, due to being Under New Management, SourceForge has cleaned up their act re: malware in downloadable files.

Unfortunately CWB was caught in their net, resulting in big red “WARNING MALWARE” labels all over our project page.

The cause for this is that two of the Windows binaries – cwb-atoi.exe and cwb-itoa.exe – for whatever reason trip the alarms on some (not all) antivirus systems; most likely because they are such tiny programs.

This was a known problem, but not critical (since antivirus warnings can be overridden) until it started showing up in our SF.net store.

I’ve imposed a new policy to fix this swiftly: the atoi/itoa utilities will no longer be included in Windows binary releases. The code is still there, fo course, and if you cross-compile it yourself, you will still get the exe for both. Of course they are non-essential and rarely used utils so I hope no one will miss them too much.

I have uploaded a new Windows binary bundle which no longer trips the malware detectors, and I have taken the otherwise step of scrubbing old builds which have the malware. It seems to have worked, I can no longer see malware warnings anywhere on the project pages. BUT if you do see any, please do let me know!

Relatedly: in  doing this, I realised, to my deep shame, that it is 4 years since I last built & posted a Windows build. So – even aside from the malware-alert issue – Windows users may well wish to update in the near future. (Perhaps not immediately.)

I promise I will post updated Windows binaries more regularly from now on. Cross my heart and hope to (erm….) suffer indigestion.

best

Andrew.
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