[beports] Downloads plugin for new site

There's a couple annoying issues with the downloads plugin.  One is
that when I try to add a new file, the add form appears on top of
other text, making it hard to read, I filed ticket #61 on the new site
for this so that I could attached a screenshot to it.  Second is that
the component list box only has a limited number of items, I hope this
is to be fixed before the move over.
I've started uploading a few files on there now, using the make
install DESTDIR=/boot/foo trick and then running zip -ry9
foo-haiku-x.x.x.zip.
It would be nice if that download list was sortable, I supposed once
it grows to be a few hundred or more files it's probably going to get
messy.
It's nice to have a place to post these binaries, as I manage to crash
my build system a few times a month and then just start over from a
fresh dev image.  Now I don't lose the binaries I've already created.
I've been building most everything using --prefix=/boot/common unless
someone has objections here, I'll just keep using this format.  This
means most of the zips will unzip to a "common" folder.  The first
ones might not be in this format and we may even decide on a different
format prior to the site going live.  Once we figure out the final
format I'll update the files I've already posted.
I think for the file name foo-bin-x.x.x-haiku-r.zip or something along
those lines might work better than the one I am using now.  Where v
would be the revision of the zip file, so if say we've found a better
way to build a specific package but it's release version didn't
change, we would bump up the r# number to show that it's a different
haiku build then the previous r#.
Comments?
-scottmc

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