| From: | Ray A. Akey |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 05:20:04 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga tool inclusion... |
"Rudi Chiarito" <rudi@amiga.com> wrote:
> Sounds good, but there's no Version: header.
A Version: header will be included in the formal spacification. :)
> a) in case it's desirable to keep an older version of an archive (witness
> ToolManager 2.1 and 3.0, which were quite different from each other and
> split the Amiga community), this could be kept in a proper subdirectory,
> such as old or .old. For example ToolManager 3.0 would be available as
> util/wb/ToolManager.lha, while v2.1 as util/wb/old/ToolManager-2.1.lha.
> b) as an alternative to the standard Aminet header "Replaces:", a new one
> could be introduced. "Replaces:" tells the managing script to discard the
> old version, while the new header (I can't think of any names at the
> moment) would tell the script to simply move the old archive to the "old"
> subdirectory.
In those cases, I would rather have the party making the new submission
re-upload the "old" version with a new/different "location:" header than for
us to make assumptions about where this "old" revision should go and
complicate what could be a very simple task. :)
In actuality, I plan to implement a very powerful interface which will use
the Author: field with a developer profile cross-reference to determine the
"owner" of these uploads/submissions and allow them to
reorganize/move/rename them if and when this obsolescense is warranted.
> c) a web-based interface (or an ADT-like client) should also display the
> version number automatically.
Definitely. Anything specified as a required header field will be put to
good use by the interface.
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