> -----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. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])