ftp area suggestion

[Jason Molenda]

Jeff:

> I'm open to more suggestions...


I agree with Fred that we should shove everything into subdirs.
Even if we don't have a soft-link to the current directory, if
we have subdirectories like

  1997-09-11
  1997-09-07
  1997-09-04
  1997-09-01

You should be able to figure out which is the most recent.  Or we could
add a file like I've seen others do called "LATEST-IS-1997-09-11".


> We could push everything into subdirs based on the date, but
> then if you have snapshot a and want up update to e without
> sucking down a whole new release you have to go searching through
> all the subdirs looking for the various patchfiles.

I don't think it's too bad.  If I have the 1997-09-04 snapshot, and
I want to upgrade to 1997-09-11, I'd just do something like

 cd 1997-09-07
 mget *diff.gz
 cd ../1997-09-11
 mget *diff.gz

As opposed to what I would do right now,

 mget *970907.diff.gz
 mget *970910.diff.gz

Not a big difference IMHO.  In fact, I'd like to see the diff files
in their own subdirs just because it would keep the egcs/snaphots/
directory from becoming so full/confusing.

Jason