Re: Hosting Win32 binary packages of GNOME stuff on ftp.gnome.org?

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

Well, I'd rather those who spent more time designing the structure
responded but since they haven't...

On 6/1/06, Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote:
> My idea now is to change to using Owen's plan, but still also keep the
> current {platform,desktop}/2.x/2.x.y/win32 directories, but those
> would now then just contain symlinks to the actual stuff under
> binaries/win32/<module>/<major.minor>.

Sounds sane to me.  If you don't get objections to it soon, I'd go
ahead and assume it's okay.

<snip>
> I don't know whether the mirrors will automatically pick up such a new
> binaries folder, though?

It automatically picked up the new admin folder when I created it for
the admin suite, so I'm pretty sure it'd pick up a new binaries folder
as well.

> This has mostly worked out fine, yes. During the 2.12 and 2.13 phases
> some Win32 binaries were released with slightly skewed versions as the
> Win32 changes were not committed in synch with the releases, but in
> 2.14.0 the versions are the same in sources and win32, as far as I can
> recall.
>
> I didn't do any Win32 releases for 2.14.1, out of laziness, as it
> didn't seem to contain that many changes relevant for Win32 (the
> freshest gtk and glib binaries are anyway available on ftp.gtk.org),
> but for 2.14.2 I will build and release Win32 packages.

Thanks for all your awesome work!

Cheers,
Elijah