> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raphaël Enrici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 26 September 2003 23:07
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] FTP directories
> 
> 
> Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> 
> >Dear all,
> >The ftp directory on Snake has "beta" and "release" 
> directories. Is it 
> >still
> >worth publishing the "beta" directory? It could confuse 
> users who may 
> >consider "beta" as a more recent work than "release".
> >I would be in favor of removing the "beta" directory to keep 
> it simple. The 
> >other solution would be to rename "beta" 0.9.2 and "release" 1.0.0.
> >
> The only problem I can see with removing the beta directory concerns 
> debian users who used to refer to this place for automatic 
> update with 
> apt-get. Apt will give an error for these users. A polite way of 
> handling this would be to give a "page has moved" http answer when 
> requesting any page placed under beta/debian/
> IMHO, we should consider this for next beta/non-beta releases.

Hi Raphael,

Unfortunately the vast majority of the mirrors are out of our control at that level - 
besides, they are ftp mirrors so we cannot give http response codes :-)

Regards, Dave.

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