From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6645 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2011 18:01:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 6635 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Dec 2011 18:01:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:01:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC5C2BAE90; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:01:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id QZQouMdYSOtd; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:01:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDCC2BAE4C; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:01:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4218F145615; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:00:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:01:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Martin Guy Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb-* -> gdb-*a links on FTP site? [was Re: binutils-2.20.1a replaced by 2.20.1 and so 2.21.1a?] Message-ID: <20111228180052.GN7683@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 > Could the same scheme of links be implemented on the gdb download > site? As gdb-6.2a.tar.gz unpacks to gdb-6.2/ etc, that would also > avoid the need for extra code everywhere to handle that We already discussed this, and RMS asked that we NOT do this in order to raise awareness to the issue. Sorry. -- Joel