[MITgcm-devel] download page

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi Ed,

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:36, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:39 -0500, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I think we should remove the tar-file
> > MITgcm_checkpoint56.tar.gz
> > under
> > http://mitgcm.org/download/
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> OK, checkpoint56 one is gone and a new checkpoint58 tarball has been
> created.

Thanks. That's at least a temporary solution.

> > and also remove the link
> > to this page from the page
> > http://mitgcm.org/source_code.html
> 
> Could we instead encourage people to use CVS and make it policy to
> create a new tarball when ever we make a new checkpoint tag?  The stuff
> in CVS is, on occasion, broken as are the contents of the daily
> "snapshot" tarballs that I create at:

I agree, we should discourage use of the tar-ball,
and "gently" enforce CVS, e.g. by hiding the link to a
frozen checkpoint/tar-ball, only make daily snapshots visible.
I know this is controversial...

-p.



>   http://mitgcm.org/download/daily_snapshot/
> 
> And the place where all these files are located:
> 
>   /u/httpd/html/download/
> 
> is owned by "gcmpack" so everyone with CVS check-in permissions can
> update them.  Is that a reasonable compromise?
> 
> Ed
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