Re: new site for my ports is up

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:29:07PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:51 PM
>Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
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>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:38:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>>My 2c on the layout - package letter based make s more sense to me.
>>>(It allows finding a package via ftp without knowing the category.)
>>
>>Are you saying that I should have a list like "A" and put ash
>>underneath that?  "B" gets binutils?  Yuck.
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>No.  Crossed wires here.  The conversation I recall was rearranging the
>directories in the ftp site.

Ah!  Sorry about that.

The idea of putting things under categories was something that I
originally proposed but I wasn't entirely sure that it was ok.

I wonder if we shouldn't just dispense with any hierarchy at all and put
all of the packages in their own subdirectory, like ftp.gnu.org?

cgf

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