Re: Bad directories in FTP

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > A person just got into #gnome and asked for gnome-libs for GNOME 2, I
> > said he needed libgnome and libgnomeui. However he got confused since
> > there was libgnome2 and libgnomeui2 directories at
> > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
> >
> > Are these the results of a naming error while uploading the tarballs?
> >
> > Someone should remove those directories to avoid confusion.
> >    
>
> [ long delay in replying ]
>
> I'd prefer to see a THIS_MODULE_IS_DEAD file in the top of all dead
> directories, rather than wholesale removal of the modules.
>  
In the past, I don't think this was quite as much of an issue because we 
had the latest/ subdirectory where people could look for the latest 
versions of the packages for the desktop.  Maybe it would be nice to 
have a directory that had the latest versions of modules targetted at 
2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x, etc (of course, these directories would not 
represent an officially released set of modules).

This would probably require an extra switch to install-module to say 
which platform(s) the module is targetted at, and some decision on how 
it should fit into the ftp site layout.

James.

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