Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
Excellent, thanks! On 20 February 2014 02:33, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Wednesday 19 February 2014 15:18:03 Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > > - remove the old content where we can, possibly moving the old > > > > tarballs to sourceforge > > > > Re: bandwidth: I expect to get a 1 gigabit fiber opti

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
> > > - remove the old content where we can, possibly moving the old tarballs > > to sourceforge > Re: bandwidth: I expect to get a 1 gigabit fiber optic within the next 6 months or so, maybe sooner, and so should be able to support dramatically more content. > - install a permanent redirect to

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
This caught my eye: > >> Besides, it's rather > >> hard to argue that gnucash belongs there in any form, since we're not > >> part of Gnome. > > Linas could explain the historical relations. > GnuCash is one of the founding members of the Gnome Foundation. I helped draft the Articles of Incorp

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 19 February 2014 15:18:03 Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > - remove the old content where we can, possibly moving the old > > > tarballs to sourceforge > > Re: bandwidth: I expect to get a 1 gigabit fiber optic within the > next 6 months or so, maybe sooner, and so should be able to suppor

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-19 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 19.02.2014 16:20, schrieb Geert Janssens: > On Wednesday 19 February 2014 07:08:45 John Ralls wrote: >> On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >>> John Ralls writes: : >> You could do that with www.gnucash.org, but master.gnome.org (the >> developer side of ftp.gnome.org) is highly a

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-19 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 19 February 2014 07:08:45 John Ralls wrote: > On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > John Ralls writes: > >>> I think keeping around history is a good thing. > >>> Disk is cheap. > >>> Just mark it an archive and add a README to the current > >>> location(s) > >> > >>

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-19 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > John Ralls writes: > >>> I think keeping around history is a good thing. >>> Disk is cheap. >>> Just mark it an archive and add a README to the current location(s) >> >> As I said, the history is preserved in git. > > It's not quite the sam

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-19 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: >> I think keeping around history is a good thing. >> Disk is cheap. >> Just mark it an archive and add a README to the current location(s) > > As I said, the history is preserved in git. It's not quite the same as "release tarballs". > With the old collections on www.gnucas

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-18 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 18, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > John Ralls writes: > >>> 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 ? >>> >> >> Del

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-18 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: >> 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. I

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-18 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:23 AM, Geert Janssens 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 ther

Re: www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

2014-02-18 Thread Geert Janssens
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