[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Re: iso-codes releases

[guenther]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:41 +0100, Tobias Toedter wrote:

> I like the idea of having a symlink which points to the latest available 
> version. I don't know if this is helping the GNOME people, though. However, 
> it should not be a problem to leave old releases of iso-codes on the 
> server, instead of deleting them.

As far as GARNOME, the build utility for the GNOME Desktop, is
concerned, we would need old tarballs to be left on the server. By
default GARNOME checks the MD5 hash of each (automatically) downloaded
tarball, thus a moving "latest" target unfortunately does not help.
Keeping old releases would rock. :)


> Elijah, I'm sorry that you've had trouble with this, I guess that we just 
> did not think enough about possible problems when removing releases. So 
> from now on, we will provide a permanent download location for previous 
> releases.

Great.

...guenther


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