Re: [Mingw-users] Updates to 'www.mingw.org' ready for review!

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Mike L wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve D. Perkins" <mai...@st...>
> To: "MinGW-Users" <min...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Updates to 'www.mingw.org' ready for review!
> 
> >     Excellant!  I'm open for any discussion from more veteran team members
> > about what the best procedure is for running a mirror.  As I understand
> it,
> > anybody can do an anonymous checkout of the 'htdocs' CVS module (please
> post
> > if this turns out to be incorrect or if you need any help).  The only
> issue
> > might be that what you get from CVS checkout is occasionally going to be
> > out-of-sync with what's on the production website... the CVS module is
> > continuously modified during development, while what you'd want to mirror
> is
> > manually updated after changes have been approved.
> >
> >     Perhaps the best solution is to develop a standard naming scheme, tag
> > the 'htdocs' module when an update to production occurs, and have mirror
> > sites periodically refresh their content with anonymous checkouts of that
> > tag?  We would need a standard naming scheme, so that it's simple to
> glance
> > and tell which CVS tag represents the latest production code.  Discussion,
> > ideas, and alternatative suggestions are welcome!
> 
> Hmm, this I don't know too much about. My site is hosted by an ISP, so I
> don't have all the access that I would if I were running my own server.
> 
> I can do a bunch of stuff like run PHP, Perl & Java, cron jobs...
> 

Hmm...  You could possibly cron a process to wget the files.

> I guess I'm open to any idea that's the least work for me :)  FYI I run
> Win2K at home, my server is a Unix/Apache setup with its own peculiar
> restrictions and so on. And I just realized some of those pages are .shtml
> pages... not sure if those will work?
> 

IIRC, Apache supports ssi (server side includes).

Earnie.

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