Re: Bad directories in FTP

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> A person just got into #gnome and asked for gnome-libs for GNOME 2, I
> said he needed libgnome and libgnomeui. However he got confused since
> there was libgnome2 and libgnomeui2 directories at
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
> 
> Are these the results of a naming error while uploading the tarballs?
> 
> Someone should remove those directories to avoid confusion.

[ long delay in replying ]

I'd prefer to see a THIS_MODULE_IS_DEAD file in the top of all dead
directories, rather than wholesale removal of the modules.

Thanks,
-Jonathan