Parrot FTP site

[Will Coleda]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Allison Randal <allison at parrot.org> wrote:
> We are now the proud owners of:
>
>   ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/

Yay.

> soon-to-be the home of Parrot release tarballs, OS packages, and
> potentially also Parrot modules.

And language releases. =-)

> So, how do we want to structure the ftp directories? A few things we
> need to support or may want to consider:
>
> - A directory for each release, to contain the tarballs and packages for
> that release.

+1

> - A clear path (alias) to the *current* release, that's always the same.

Perhaps current -> devel before 1.0 and -> stable after?

> - Directories for 'stable' and 'devel'?
>
> - A top-level directory 'releases' to make room for subdivisions for
> modules, etc?


So,

- pub/parrot/releases/0.8.0
- pub/parrot/releases/devel -> pub/parrot/releases/0.8.0
- pub/parrot/releases/current -> pub/parrot/releases/devel

with pub/parrot/... languages? modules, etc?

>
> Ubuntu's releases directory is a good example:
>
>   ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/ubuntu-releases/
>
> You'll find a few bad examples if you poke around in pub/.
>
> Any thoughts/comments?
>
> Allison
>
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Will "Coke" Coleda