Guenter Knauf wrote: > this makes me ask a couple of questions: Remember we only *have* to make the source available. Anything we do on the binary front is just being helpful and the release manager is unlikely to have access to build binaries for all platforms.
> 1) why do some folders list older versions while others do not? Probably because they are the latest stable version for that platform. > 2) why do we have a history of the last 3 versions with Win32 but no history > for any other platform? Because the old version weren't cleaned out. They should have been. > 3) where do the older versions go? They are automatically copied to archive.apache.org which is linked off the Tomcat homepage. > 4) why do we prefix the directories with 'jk-' although 'jk' is already in > the path? No particular reason I am aware of. We just do. > For NetWare I would like to have at least the 1.2.15 release up again since > that was last version where I supported Apache 1.3.x and Netscape - I point > to this version in the README but obviously nobody can download anymore > (except from my personal homedir). Sure its no problem for me just copy this > over, but first I wanted to discuss that here, and ask if I probably missed > that there's somewhere an archive from where older versions can be > downloaded... This is not correct. It is available along with all other versions in the archive. > Then I would like to have at least the last three versions always up, + the > last version we have for any platforms where we cant build self, or where the > maintainer is currently busy and some versions behind. -1. dist (and the mirrors) should only have the current stable version and the latest non-stable release if there has been once since the last stable release. > This makes also sense in case it turns out later that we broke something with > a release, and users may have to switch back. Again, that is what the archives are for. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
