[MPlayer-mirror] Re: ftp6.mplayerhq.hu directory structure

[Diego Biurrun]

Diego Biurrun writes:
> jason andrade writes:
> > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm contacting you as the mirror admin of ftp6.mplayerhq.hu.  The URL
> > > to reach your mirror is
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp6.mplayerhq.hu/pub/mplayer/
> > >
> > > while all the other mirrors use
> > >
> > > ftp://ftpX.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/
> > >
> > > (no pub directory, capitalized M and P).  It would help me as MPlayer
> > > homepage maintainer if all mirror URLs could be similar.  Having to
> > > worry about the different URLs is a source of bad links, I only
> > > noticed recently that they were different at all and fixed a ton of
> > > dangling links.  If you could change your directory structure this
> > > would ease my job help us avoid problems in the future.
> > 
> > i'll investigate if we can do this.  i am guessing it isn't possible
> > to go with the standard of having all the mplayer ftp sites using
> > /pub/mplayer or /pub/MPlayer ?
> 
> I guess this will be kind of hard since all the other sites are using
> that directory structure.  You are the only exception, that's why I'm
> asking you to change and not the other way around.
> 
> > because we have 800+ archives here i really prefer to avoid putting
> > things outside /pub if i can help it..
> 
> A symlink would do, wouldn't it?  If you could capitalize the
> directory name this would already help.
> 
> > if i have no choice then i guess i can make an exception but i
> > thought i'd point it out..
> 
> Of course.  Your points are valid, I hope to have explained why I
> think things should be done the way I suggested, though.

If you cannot put us outside of pub/, could you please rename the
directory to "MPlayer" instead of "mplayer"?  This would already help.

Diego