>>That's essentially identical to what I was proposing with just two >>practical differences: (1) it uses numbers rather than names and (2) >>it goes to more effort to hide things. > >May be. I'm afraid I too-hurriedly deleted the message with your >suggestion, and can't go back to re-read it to see if I misread it >the first time through. > >The intended point of my suggestion, and you might have beaten me to >this, was to have the real directory trees be named neutrally, so >that their names wouldn't need to change, and use symlinks with >meaningful names (which could be easily changed without causing >massive re-mirroring) to point to them.
This is precisely what I suggested. [..] >>As to (2), I'm not convinced about hiding things; what we actually >>want is for people to look in the right place for a stable version >>without having to think about it. If people actually want to live on >>the bleeding edge, it shouldn't actually be any effort to do so - just >>hard to do by accident. > >My suggestion, and the names I chose for illustration, was intended >to show a structure which allowed that. Unfortunately, I see that >I inadvertantly left out a directory level in some of my illustrative >namings. Let me try again, with that mistake corrected (names shown >below are intended to be illustrative. perhaps there are better >choices for the symlink names. In any case, the symlink names would >be changeable without causing massive re-mirroring.): > > /debian/.hidden/debian-tree1/ # full 0.093 tree > /debian/.hidden/debian-tree2/ # full 1.1 tree > /debian/debian-stable -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree1 > /debian/debian-unstable -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree2 > /debian/debian-0.93 -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree1 > /debian/debian-1.1.alpha -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree2 > >Then, when 1.0 becomes the stable distribution, the symlinks >could change to: > > /debian/debian-stable -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree2 # changed from tree1 > /debian/debian-0.93 -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree1 # might be deleted > /debian/debian-1.1 -> /debian/.hidden/debian-tree2 > >And no re-mirroring need occur. My comments about this remain as above. My suggestion provides the required functionality without creating `hidden' directories. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
