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