From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: re-organising Emacs FTP Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lgdwtzlj.fsf@russet.org.uk> <878t9wtsxp.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523281918 12428 195.159.176.226 (9 Apr 2018 13:51:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:51:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 15:51:54 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5XD6-00036a-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:51:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5XFC-0002u4-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5XF4-0002tQ-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5XF0-0001gO-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:41892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5XF0-0001fW-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w39DrmbV014041; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C683362E2E; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:53:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878t9wtsxp.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:23:14 +0100") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6260=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6260> : inlines <6554> : streams <1783535> : uri <2622539> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224460 Archived-At: > 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