Re: LYNX-DEV post-release distribution site configuration

[T.E.Dickey]

> to follow up on what T.E.Dickey said:
> 
> > btw, while we're on the topic:  I think it's best to make a page that
> > covers both 2.8 and 2.7.2 - essentially move Fote's page & link to that,
> > with a summary of the differences.  At the moment there's a directory
> > named 'release', which Fote created, and I think there's room for 2.8
> > there as well - but the index.html should be adjusted.
> 
> I believe this violates the model that Fote clearly indicated
> over and over.  The release/ directory or URL tree is for the
> current release of which there is only ever one.  Talk to Scott.
> release/ may simply be a soft pointer, moved to the latest in a
> series of version-numbered directories.
that might work (I had it stuck in my head that 'release' would be a
directory.  But /lynx/release2-7-2 and /lynx/release2-8 would work (if
/lynx/release points to the latter ;-).
 
> You can install a front page as the default document within the
> Lynx-2-8 directory tree which acknowledges and links to a start
> page for 2.7.2, but it should be discussed with "supersedes"
> semantics.  In what you get when you navigate to release/ it
> should not be given equal treatment.
I don't plan to make it equal (obviously I'm biased), but don't think it
proper to discard it altogether, particularly since there are details in it
that I'll still be referring to & comparing against during the next set of
changes.  I'll make a draft & get Scott's opinion.  (It's his webpage after
all).
 
> I believe that I am articulating namespace principles that Fote
> would support [as he clarified them].
Fine (I brought up the topic because I wanted feedback).
 
> Al Gilman
> 


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