On 2016-01-16, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Samstag, 16. Januar 2016 um 12:16:14, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller > <sp...@lyx.org> >> Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2016, 00:09 +0100 schrieb Kornel Benko: >> > commit 51bc75ca2ba3d8fb862bbbad474841327f1d9eb7 >> > Author: Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> >> > Date: Thu Jan 14 00:07:57 2016 +0100 >> > >> > Prefered use of direct links to ctan, not to a mirror
>> Actually, the CTAN team always advices people to use mirror links, not >> direct links. That's why we started to systematically use mirror links >> some time ago. This was true at the time CTAN people had no direct access to the www.ctan.org URL. Since a year (or more), www.ctan.org redirects to the mirrors and is the preferred address. > I am confused. Citing Jean-Pierre: > In addition, I think it is better to give links to CTAN from > www.ctan.org instead of mirrors.ctan.org, the server shifts to > a mirror is a file ends the link > I am open to either way, but it should be consistent through our docs. I suggest consistently using www.ctan.org. Günter
