Re: [Gramps-devel] gramps-addons/ gramps32

[Rob H. <rob...@gm...>]

Tim:

Thank you for providing the statistics for Gramps32...

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Tim Lyons <guy...@gm...> wrote:

> Is it considerations of disk space in sourceforge that are prompting this
> suggestion? Did I miss the memo about disk space no longer being
> essentially
> free these days?  :-)
>
> If you are concerned about disk space (as suggested by your zip comment),
> then how do you know that sourceforge are not already zipping the files?
> How do you know whether they do something special with files that have not
> been accessed recently? (I don't particularly see why they would, given
> that disk
> space is so cheap now, but who knows).
>

I do not know what sourceforge does or not with unused and unaccessed
files...

>
> If it is not disk space, then why do you want to make it more complicated
> to access older files in the repository. This smacks of your suggestion to
> handle older files in the main repository separately. The reason not to do
> so are the same here - who knows when one might want to access an older
> file, to compare with the current, or to check out a bug or functionality
> with some older version.
>

This is correct, but I must say that some people certainly upgrade their
gramps software regularly and obsolete their older versions!

>
> Perhaps your reasoning is to make it harder for users to access the wrong
> version of an add-on. However, now that add-on handling is largely
> automated, this is now pretty unlikely.
>

Not this at all!

>
> Since Jan 2012 there have been 264 downloads of 3.2.6 and 511 of 3.2.5 (I
> haven't checked other versions). I don't imagine that all those users have
> stopped using 3.2, so I imagine they would like to be able to download
> add-ons for their version.
>

I had not known this information!

>
> If you have a good reason, then by all means let's hear it, but otherwise
> let's just leave the repositories as they are. "Why keep  gramps32..." -
> why not?
>

It was just an idea!  I do not see the point of keeping such old files?  It
has nothing to do with space!

I was just thinking that some software packages, obsolete their older
versions when they make a huge non back portable  update/ database changes
...

Sincerely yours,
Rob G. Healey


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Rob G. Healey