On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 11:11 AM Robert Riebisch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > Just wanted to let you know that I did a little cleanup on the FreeDOS > > files archive at Ibiblio. > > Okay. > > > Over the history of using the files archive on Ibiblio, I haven't really > > done a great job at keeping things clean. For example, there was one > > directory for FreeDOS Choice at /files/dos/choice > > <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/choice/> and > > /all/ of the releases for FreeDOS Choice lived there, just dumped in one > > directory listing: > >[..] > > If you wanted to get the latest version of FreeDOS Choice, what file > > would you download? Would you grab the first one on the list > > (choice201.zip) or the last file in the list (choice44x.zip)? If you > > know the history of FreeDOS Choice, you would know that choice201.zip is > > version 2.01, and choice44x.zip is version 4.4. > > I would have hoped to find "files" named latests.zip and latestx.zip (or > something like that), which always link to the latest version.
If Ibiblio were still an ftp site, I would agree. But I believe this is very confusing when the files are displayed via a web server. Ibiblio only serves files via the web; they no longer support ftp. And when viewing on a web server, all links look like files or directories (whatever they are pointing to). Adding a link called "latest.zip" on an ftp server can provide a "pointer" to the latest file. On a web server, adding a link called "latest.zip" will make it look like just another file on the web server. > > > 4.2: > > alt_TE/ choice42a.zip choice42b.zip > > 4.3: > > alt_TE/ choice43a.zip choice43.zip > > What is "alt_TE"? I believe this was an alternative version or experiment by Tom Ehlert. It's been long enough that I don't remember the details. I looked at the documentation in 4.2/alt_TE for both versions and didn't see something that reminded me. We've always had these in the "alt_TE" directory. I can delete them, but I wasn't sure .. so I decided to leave them. > > I haven't finished going through /all/ the directories on Ibiblio yet .. > > that will take months. But wanted to let folks know I was doing it. > > "Even the longest journey..." You know it. ;-) > Yup, it's always one thing or another. One of the pain points for not keeping Ibiblio well organized over the years. (I think we had a pretty good overall structure, but dumping all versions into one directory makes things harder down the road when there are a lot of versions.) Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
