Delete them. Gary
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some components have "current" links in the top-level dist/ directories. > > For example: > > http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/digester/ > > has several such links. > > These are presumably supposed to always point to the current latest > release. > However, they are tricky to maintain (perhaps more so now we are > moving to svnpubsub). > > Also they don't behave well. For example, if one downloads the link, > the file is named after the link, not the target, so it's not clear > exactly what has been downloaded. Also one cannot tell what file is > being referenced. > > In fact, looking at the files uploaded to > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/commons/digester/ > > it appears that the entries are copies of the files, not actually > links, so the links clearly are tricky to maintain. Also there are now > two copies of each of the files in SVN, and these will appear on each > 3rd party mirror. Not ideal. > > The links are expensive in maintenance and disk space. > > I think they should be deleted unless there is a very good use-case > for keeping them. This seems very unlikely, as no-one has complained > about the Commons components that don't have the links. > > Thoughts? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
