Re: Suggestion: use of symbolic links in the FTP site

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Apr 21 2004 - 15:25:08 EDT

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    On 21/04/2004 11:23, Philippe Verdy wrote:

    >Symbolic links is a bad idea on FTP. They are resolved by the client...
    >
    >I think it would also give the false feeling that a new 4.01 file exist when in
    >fact it's the same as 4.00.
    >I better suggest listing files with a simple parsable fiel which lists all files
    >that are part of a Unicode version, with their respective version.
    >
    >
    >
    I was about to suggest that what was needed was an HTML page with
    ordinary HTML links to the relevant data files for each version. But I
    quickly found that exactly that already exists:
    http://www.unicode.org/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html. What
    more does anyone need?

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter@qaya.org (personal)
    peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
    http://www.qaya.org/
    


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