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

[Diego Biurrun]

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.

Regards

Diego