RE: stable gnome sources

[fheitka attglobal net]

In <A5F46F4ED18FD211ABEE00105AC6CF077F8020@email.cu-portland.edu>, on
04/30/00 
   at 02:18 PM, Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu> said:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sean Thomas Middleditch [mailto:sean.middleditch@iname.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:17 AM
>> To: Gregory Leblanc
>> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
>> Subject: Re: stable gnome sources
>> 
>> 
>> I don't think that's what he meant...
>> 
>> I think he wantd a directory that had no subdirectories and contained
>> ONLY the latest tarballs of source packages... so he could for example
>> type ncftpget ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest/sourcelist and get
>> all the latest source tarballs, and only the latest sourcetarballs.

Yeah.  That's what I was thinking.  However, I often use any number of
different ftp clients, depending on the OS I'm using at the time, so, I
would prefer a solution, that is not tied to using a particular client.

>Well, that's what it's SUPPOSED to be, and <rant> the FTP site
>maintainers do a crappy job of keeping things up to date.</rant>  I've
>volunteered a couple of times, since it's a minute ammount of effort to
>keep it current, and probably only a couple of hours of work to get it
>there.

I suppose someone could write a script that scans for the latest versions
and updates the links accordingly.

Thanks for your interest.

Fred