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

From: Theo Veenker (Theo.Veenker@let.uu.nl)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 02:57:51 EDT

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    Tom Emerson wrote:
    > Philippe Verdy writes:
    >
    >>Symbolic links is a bad idea on FTP. They are resolved by the client...
    >
    >
    > Really? Depends on your server: proftpd handles them fine.
    >
    >
    >>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.
    >
    >
    > No, the filename of the link would match that of the file in the 4.00
    > directory. The link only provides you with a way to access the
    > datafile. I would not recommend renaming the link to 4.01 if it didn't change.
    >
    >
    >>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.
    >
    >
    > The problem here is that you cannot easily grab all the files for a
    > given release without first downloading that file and parsing the
    > information out and constructing pathnames.

    It would not be difficult to write script which automatically downloads
    the required files (using wget) for a given unicode version if there was
    such a file as suggested by Philipppe.

    Theo



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