I suggest:
plex86-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz
M = month, D = day, Y = year
ie. plex86-20001124.tar.gz
Of course if you're going by the hour, you can just overwrite the same file
I suppose.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Psyon
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 10:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .tar.gz - Packages available??
You should date your tarballs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I was already working on this when you sent this e-mail. I now have a
> box building Plex86 from CVS hourly. This is accessible from:
>
> http://cartman.ritc.co.uk/~chris/plex86
>
> Original, virgin source code and my prebuilt binaries for RedHat 6.2 (and
> hopefully other systems) are available. Please let me know if you have any
> comments/questions about these files, especially if the binary tarballs
> work (or not) on non-RedHat systems.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> > I originally was thinking of snapshots periodically. Though
> > with such volatility in our development, about all that does
> > is offers out-of-date tarballs to people, who will then often
> > post out-of-date bugs to this list for problems which may have
> > been solved.
> [snip]
> > 2) Generate only one tarball (the latest CVS) and delete the others.
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