Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/01/16/01:30:15
Ben Peddell wrote:
>
> Yup. That'd be nice. Thankyou.
> Anything to tell the different revisions apart, so others
> (including myself) don't assume that they have the latest version
> just because the files the zip picker picks just happen to have
> the same name as the ones they've already got.
>
> With a timestamp, the person getting the files would need to open
> the Zip file and sort the files by their modified time, and find
> the latest time. Unfortunately, with for example the djdev203.zip,
> the latest file in the Zip file is dated 10 June 2002, whilst the
> timestamp on the file on the FTP site is 11 August 2002. Also,
> when downloading files, the timestamp is not set as the timestamp
> on the FTP site.
Treat the zipfiles with "zip -o zipfile.zip" on arrival, and the
date will be properly set. The creation date will still mark when
you actually got it.
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