Re: old Texinfo versions

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

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 Karl> I've put the 4.1 distribution at:
 Karl> ftp://texinfo.org/texinfo/knowngood/texinfo-4.1.tar.gz
 Karl> aka
 Karl> http://texinfo.org/ftp/knowngood/texinfo-4.1.tar.gz

Thank you for the quick reply and the tarball.

 Karl> (There are also diffs between just about all versions there.)

BTW, these are not issues to me, but the 4.2-4.3 diff is empty,
and since there no 3.7-4.0 diff all the 3.x diffs seem almost
useless -- at least from the point of view of someone who needs
to apply all the patches backwards to resurrect a relic!

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 Karl> I never kept more than the latest version there as a .tar.gz, per
 Karl> maintain.texi.  ("The purpose of prep is not to store old versions." :)
 Karl> I'll see if I can put them on savannah somewhere.  If not, I can
 Karl> certainly put them on texinfo.org.

After I asked for an account on gnu-dist last december, Paul
Fisher told me the following:

| Please don't delete old releases of the programs you maintain
| -- if you want to get them out of the way, please move them to
| ~ftp/old-gnu.

I like this concept of cemetery.  Space is cheap, and old
versions have important archaeological value.  Moving them in a
separate directory limits the size of things to be mirrored
worldwide, which I guess is the point of maintain.texi.

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz