From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28657 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1999 21:35:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Dec 1999 21:35:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 8181 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 1999 21:35:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8996 Received: (qmail 8174 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1999 21:35:26 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Development versions Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 21:36:13 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson Message-Id: Two points: 1. I meant to mention this yesterday, sorry: difficulties some people are having with getting the latest version seem to be due to wget, as Tanaka Akira noted with supanet; from a message from Bart, it seems that the same problem (wget is adding a port number which the server doesn't expect) is happening at freeserve. Presumably this is because they are using a server provided by you-know-who. 2. Geoff just asked me why I didn't send the latest version to the main archive in a special directory. The real answer is that I was worried about extra traffic due to mirroring versions which are only going to be there a week or two. But if enough people are using them anyway --- or if even more people would use them if they found them on the official mirrors --- maybe this isn't a problem. I could (as Richard used to do) make the directory unbrowsable, so you could only retrieve the file if it was there, but this would mean everyone getting the file from Australia, although that's not much of a difficulty nowadays. Maybe other people have strong views. The only real difficulty might be that I don't know what my ISP would do with the 2MB mail files the current procedure would need, but I imagine with people sending their MPEG home videos to relatives in Venezuela that's not a problem either. -- Peter Stephenson