On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:23 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 January 2014 10:10:05 John Ralls wrote: >> I'm reviewing/updating README in response to >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721608 , and there's a >> link there to the subject URI. >> >> It looks like the sources there stopped being updated at the end of >> 2010 when we released 2.4.0. The dates on the binary directories are >> all in 2003, but the ones I checked had files no later than mid >> 2001. >> >> I'm removing the reference in README, and I think we should remove >> the directory. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls > > The old news section of gnucash still refers to this location for > downloads of ancient versions of gnucash. > > These old versions are not available on sourceforge or any other > location that I'm aware of. > > Question is: should we keep providing downloads for these old versions > in the interest of archaeology ? If so the path should stay. > > If not what do we do with the historical news messages ? > Delete it all. I see no benefit to maintaining archival tarballs. In the extremely unlikely event someone wants to build some ancient version they can do so from git. I also see no reason to keep ancient announcements in serve-able form; those are also available from git if some historian wants to look at them. In that same vein, I'll talk to the Gnome folks about getting rid of http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/sources/gnucash/. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
