Re: FTP directories

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raphaël Enrici [mailto:blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr]
> Sent: 26 September 2003 23:07
> To: jm(at)poure(dot)com
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] FTP directories
>
>
> Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >The ftp directory on Snake has "beta" and "release"
> directories. Is it
> >still
> >worth publishing the "beta" directory? It could confuse
> users who may
> >consider "beta" as a more recent work than "release".
> >I would be in favor of removing the "beta" directory to keep
> it simple. The
> >other solution would be to rename "beta" 0.9.2 and "release" 1.0.0.
> >
> The only problem I can see with removing the beta directory concerns
> debian users who used to refer to this place for automatic
> update with
> apt-get. Apt will give an error for these users. A polite way of
> handling this would be to give a "page has moved" http answer when
> requesting any page placed under beta/debian/
> IMHO, we should consider this for next beta/non-beta releases.

Hi Raphael,

Unfortunately the vast majority of the mirrors are out of our control at that level - besides, they are ftp mirrors so we cannot give http response codes :-)

Regards, Dave.