David, I hate to be blunt, but the discussion below is pointless. We need to move our files to cvs. This is not an option. OK.
** SourceForge doesn't provide FTP service for hosted projects. ** On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 00:15, David Douthitt wrote: > On 4/18/02 at 7:35 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The bin/ tree in cvs serves the following purposes: > > > > * Tracking of updates (change-log, notes, notification of new > > files, etc.) (Note: a ftp repository wont give us any of this.) > > It can. See ftp.kernel.org > > > * Facilitates developer coordination on package and > > release/branch updates. > > The Debian project has a stated maintainer in charge for each package; > why not us? > > > * Fixes the problem that users are unable to locate files in our > > /devel directory on the shell server. > > Central FTP server > > > * Fixes the problem of a user trying to use an old package/image > > because they're unaware of a newer one. > > Central FTP server. > > > * Allows us to bring our shell quota in line with SF > > requirements (1G hard, 512M allocated, > > and current usage is 1.3G). > > To me, personally, this sounds like The Real Reason this is being > done.... > > > If it was this trivial to accomplish it would have been > > done already. As I stated above, an ftp directory offers > > none of the tracking or coordination capabilities of cvs. > > Additionally, it doesn't solve the problem of us exceeding > > our quota on the SF shell server. > > As I said, the former can be solved easier elseways and the latter > sounds logical. > > > For example, just take a look at the > > /pub/packages/test.txt. It's a perfect example of why your > > proposed solution doesn't work. There are many old > > packages that have been updated by another project member, > > but the old package remains to confuse our users. > > I see... However, for a quick and easy fix, you could do thus: > > find . -name "*.lrp" | xargs ls -l | \ > sed 's/\([^ ^I]*\)$/<a href="http:\/\/leaf.sf.net\/\1">&<\/a>/' \ > > index.html > > It isn't necessarily best, but it shows what you can do - and its > quick and easy. > > Another thing to note - there are plenty of packages that have the > same name, but serve different purposes or have different > arrangements. Just like there are multiple PPP servers, or multiple > PPPoE agents, or whatever, there may be multiple ppp.lrp files.... -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
