On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:23 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote:
> hwri...@tigris.org wrote: > > Author: hwright > > Date: 2010-05-18 11:03:03-0700 > > New Revision: 93 > > > > Removed: > > trunk/www/downloads/subversion-1.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2 > > trunk/www/downloads/subversion-1.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2.asc > > trunk/www/downloads/subversion-1.1.0-rc1.tar.gz > > [...] > > This breaks every historical link to these things, which I'm not sure is > what we had in mind. > > Certainly we want to have a copy of these files on archives.apache.org (so > that that becomes The Place To Get Old Subversion Releases going forward), > but I don't want us to penalize folks who Google for old releases, > following > links in announcement mails and the likes, and wind up with a giant 404. > It's just an unnecessary inconvenience for them (with no practical benefit > to us either). > You make your point as delicately as ever. I tried to use a .htaccess file to redirect requests to s.t.o/downloads to archive.apache.org, but it doesn't appear that the version of CEE that tigris is running supports it. I'll go ahead and resurrect the old files. -Hyrum
