Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cygwin and the current tarballs

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:54:35PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I see. Okay, I'll delete that collection from my Cygwin setup when
> I've got a moment and grab the newer stuff from the regular GNU site.
> As for my ideas regarding Cygwin and GNURadio, perhaps your right.
> 
> Now a suggestion, it was my understanding that Alpha GNU held either
> new software that was being tested people such as the GRUB stuff, and
> that it was also used as a launch site for things that were being
> prepared for release. Shouldn't this custom be continued and the older
> stuff stored there be moved out and the newer stuff start there, and
> when its ready to become newest be moved to the regular GNU location?

(1) You didn't pay attention to either the release announcement or the
    wiki which specifically identified ftp.gnu.org, as well as the
    complete tarball names with embedded versions.
   
(2) We haven't used alpha.gnu.org in two years which is trivially
    verifiable by looking at the timestamps on the files.
 
(3) Nothing is ever deleted from the GNU ftp sites.  There doesn't
    even exist a method for a maintainer to remove anything.

Eric