Hi, Due to space limitations on the bioengineering FTP server, I have recently migrated all snapshots into Subversion so we can take advantage of the binary diff functionalities to store them more efficiently. The plan is that all new snapshots will only go into Subversion. I updated the PCEnv developers wiki accordingly.
This raises the question of what to do with the existing snapshots - we could remove them altogether from the ftp server, but my concern is that this would break any links to such resources which might be out there in places we cannot change very easily. However, even with a text file in every directory explaining that they are out of date, it will still be confusing to keep them there. I propose the following (please raise objections before the dates specified in here): 1) At some point next week, the 'read' permission is removed from every snapshot directory. The idea of this is that no one will know what snapshots actually exist, and so hopefully will not create any links to snapshots which don't already have links to them from somewhere outside of our control. 2) Starting from when the read permission is removed, we start keeping track of all references to snapshots for a month. Any snapshot not referred to in that month is deleted at the end of the month. I don't think too many people refer to the snapshots in anything other than their bookmarks (see http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=/pub/physiome/&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=0&sa=N&filter=0 ) and I have fixed most of our internal references, so perhaps this notification should be enough. Users wanting to update their bookmarks can use the following links: Linux builds: https://svn.physiomeproject.org/svn/physiome/snapshots/pcenv/trunk/x86_linux/index.html Win32: https://svn.physiomeproject.org/svn/physiome/snapshots/pcenv/trunk/x86_Win32/index.html OSX: Win32: https://svn.physiomeproject.org/svn/physiome/snapshots/pcenv/trunk/x86_OSX/index.html Best regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
