From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-organising Emacs FTP
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:53:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwoxg5w0k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878t9wtsxp.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:23:14 +0100")
> Yes, I saw that as a problem. We could perhaps rename "emacs" to
> "xemacs", then it will always appear after "latest". What do you think?
Ah, now you're talking!
> I quite like the idea of "old", but it has two problems. First, it means
> links will change routinely as new releases appear; while this would at
> least be predictable, it might still cause issues. Second, as far as I
> can tell, the FTP Upload directives do not have a "move" option, so
> practically, this is a pain to achieve.
We'd have to perform a one-time move of everything to "old" (asking the
sysadmins to do it by hand for us) and after that, all uploads would
need to go to `old` and the main directory would only contain symlinks.
> Other possibilities would be to use "current" rather than "latest".
Nah.... too easy. Changing to `xemacs` is a lot more exciting.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-09 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-09 10:59 re-organising Emacs FTP Phillip Lord
2018-04-09 12:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-09 13:23 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-09 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-04-09 14:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-04-09 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-09 14:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-10 2:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-10 8:54 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-09 15:55 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-09 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-10 11:45 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-09 14:10 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-04-10 11:42 ` Phillip Lord
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