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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:36:23AM +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think this "latest" link is just a bad idea that was already discussed.
> Why it is a bad idea?
> 
> -> the link is always moving (and it's not even a link)
> -> it's wasting space (since it's not a symlink, but a file copy!)
> -> we don't know if it should be updated for pre-releases or only for stable
>   releases
> 
> I think that it should be replaced by a single file named
> "LATEST_IS_0.7.1". Btw, the ISO 0.7.1 has been announced on several
> mailing list : sm-admin, sm-announce, sm-users. There is a post
> on http://news.sourcemage.org and http://forums.sourcemage.org. I also
> make an annoucement on freshmeat. All those annoucements have a DIRECT
> link to the proper file.
> 
> So, how people belonging to the core sourcemage team STILL download
> "latest" ??? Aren't you all suscribed to sm-admin (we have been told that
> it's for developpers recently)?
> 

I agree ... think of our gurus who put spell-latest.tgz in the spell
breaking our glorious integrity checking each version bump.

> Btw, did someone notice the new download area where you can see whole
> filename? ... or am I just wasting my time? :-(
> 

I saw it. ;)  It's even valid code....

> Waiting for comments,
> Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO Guru
> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:40:02 -0800
> Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> 
> > On http://download.sourcemage.org/iso, the smgl-latest-i386.iso.bz2 file 
> > points
> > to the 0.7 ISO, not the 0.7.1 ISO.
> > 
> > -sandalle

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