[MinGW-dvlpr] SF File Release System and MinGW

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

Nathan Fisher has suggested a script to be used to update the 
downloads.shtml page with new updates.  I think that this is an 
excellent idea as it prevents manual intervention for dynamic data.

I am going to propose that we also change our current presentation on 
the SF FRS pages to help the scripting process not depend on file naming 
patterns to determine where to present the data on the downloads.shtml 
page.  My thoughts are to use the FRS ``package'' to create five 
categories of packages.  Those categories are Current, Previous, 
Candidate, Snapshot and Purposed.  The FRS ``package release'' would 
then contain package names without versions (similar to the Snapshot and 
Release Candidates are now).

It would look like this:

Current
   MinGW
     mingw-2.0.0-3.exe
   MSYS
     MSYS-1.0.8.exe
     msys-1.0.8-src.tar.bz2
     msys-1.0.8.odmp.bz2
   GCC
     ...
   Binutils
     ...
   ...

Previous
   MinGW
     mingw-1.1.tar.gz
   MSYS
     MSYS-1.0.7.exe
     msys-1.0.7-src.tar.bz2
     msys-1.0.7.odmp.bz2
   GCC
     ...
   Binutils
     ...
   ...

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Comments?

Earnie.