New website and ftp server
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Mon Dec 10 22:35:36 UTC 2001
Hi, Andrew and Miguel!
> Well, I will remail you a letter from Miguel some later. As far as I
> remember I sent it to you privately but you did not answer me.
I'm sorry. I must have missed that e-mail. Everything is fine now. I
have updated LATEST-IS (but it hasn't propagated to ftp.gnome.org when I'm
writing it). I'll probably upload the snapshots there if I find an
appropriate directory ("stable" in the path may be misleading).
Unfortunately, reusing the directory structure of ftp.gnome.org can make
some people think that MC is a GNOME program, especially if I put
snapshots to /ftp/pub/GNOME/testing. I need to think more about it.
> >2) Slowliness of ftp.gnome.org (it redirects to a site in Sweden). I had
> >reports from Eupore that ibiblio.org is faster than ftp.gnome.org, even
> >though the former is in the United States.
>
> I have no problem with ftp.gnome.org from Ukraine but one is German/Sweden message.
> One time I even tninked ftp.gnome.org is hacked.
There is no German message there. But there is an interesting
English message there:
This ftp server belongs to ACC and the disk space is generously sponsored
by South Pole AB and CodeFactory AB.
...
Please use http://ftp.acc.umu.se/ whenever possible.
I think it's quite unfortunate to see that ftp.gnome.org doen't belong to
the GNOME project.
> >By the way, could you please explain what was "terrible" and why do you
> >think that the location was changed twice? I would like to be aware of
> >possible problems.
>
> Firstly last release had moved to http://www.gnome.org/projects/mc,
> and now it is going to ibiblio.org. Some people are waiting for "stabilization"
> in this question. And some days ago I sow a book in Moscow with hardcoded
> mc's source location.
I see. You mentioned that the location changed twice in one _week_,
perhaps you meant one year. If you want stabilization, don't use any URLs
containing "gnome". MC is not a GNOME project. It's using some GNOME
resources because its developers cannot afford running a separate server.
Short answer - use http://www.midnightcommander.org/
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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