I just added the current version information to the mirror page, so when you go to that page, you see to which version "latest" relates.
Thanks for the hint. Carsten > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ANN] Apache Cocoon 2.1.3 Released > > > Hi, > > With all due respect can I suggest that the current way of distributing > Cocoon is plain daft! > > On http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi there is a file > cocoon-latest-src.zip. Great until a week or a month or 2 months down the > line. When the latest file will, presumably, still be > cocoon-latest-src.zip. > > So, how do I easily tell then whether I need to download and upgrade? I > can't, at least not easily. > > Why not use the traditional system of giving the version a > NUMBER? It allows > comparison of whether I have, or have not, the latest version. > > Yes, I found that there is a numbered version of 2.1.3 at > http://ftp.plig.org/pub/apache/dist/cocoon/SOURCES/ but why use this silly > cocoon-latest-src.zip idea at all? Good for lazy Web page authors > who don't > want to have to update the page perhaps? But not good for users. > > It just seems daft to me. > > Andrew Watt > P.S. I *do* appreciate the good work you guys do, but "little things" like > this are very frustrating. >
