Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:47:17 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Vik Heyndrickx cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu: Patch Level in /v2gnu] In-Reply-To: <358F8B1E.44F3@rug.ac.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Vik Heyndrickx wrote: > And I can imagine that there are naive users that download the plain > file *and* the symlinked archive file, so... back to square one. No, I meant that a user who sees gcc281b.zip and gcc281b-patch-1.zip might download the former. So I suggest that gcc281b.zip would be a symlink to the highest patch-level. > Neither do I, but the whole point is that we need something different > than the date/time to distinguish between re-releases without breaking > the gnu version number equivalences. If I understand Frank's idea, it was because he wants to be able to know, from the file name alone, whether he has the latest build. So, if he has downloaded gcc281b-patch-2.zip, and he sees gcc281b-patch-5.zip, he will immediately realize that a new binary is available. (This, of course, assumes that he remembers what was the last patch-level he downloaded, which might be tricky if the name was truncated to 8+3 on the target machine.) > What file would you choose (you might have the opportunity to see the > file size and date). *I* would be confused and try to find a README which explains what should I do. What the naive users will do is anybody's guess. Size and date aren't helpful, apparently, or else we wouldn't be having this dicussion.