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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT free.fr>]

Hamish Greig a écrit :

> > - ISO LOCATION:
> > ---------------
> >
> > In order for people to download the correct version, annoucement message
> >  should contain a full http link to the .iso.bz2 file. "latest" file
> > are forbidden.
> >
> > So, those link must be maintained over time, that's why moving file to
> > either "older-i386-versions" or "older-ppc-versions" should NOT occur.
>
>
> I *strongly* disagree. WE are talking about 130+ MB files, if we did as you 
> suggested, within a short periiod of time (sixmonths - a year ) we would have 
> hundreds of files in that top dir, most of them quite large in size (130MB+).
> Several solutions to this follow, But I am strongly against having everything 
> bundled into a single dir, no matter what reason.

What is the problem with having hundreds of file in a directory? For 
other software, most recent version are kept in the same directory.

> If we are going to spend time 
> discussing minor issues like filenames and locations, we should also (and 
> more importantly) be discussing what the ISO/Cauldron team needs to get back 
> onto track and meet it's deadlines and what help it needs in dealing with the 
> open bugs it has.

I thought that was minor issues too... but it seems that everyone is 
doing its own method. That's why I asked those questions.

I'd like to have web stats on http://download.sourcemage.org/ to see how 
much 404 errors gets generated when files are moved. That would bring 
some objective datas into the discussion.

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO Guru