#38692 [WFx]: PHP manual tarballs should include version in filename and be archived

ID: 38692 User updated by: mathieu dot bonnet at nalkym dot org Reported By: mathieu dot bonnet at nalkym dot org Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: > > [...] old manuals are useless anyway > Yeah, but they provide some stability (networkless installations, install cds) and security (hashes/signatures)... Anyone serious about PHP would anyway update the manual regularly... but an old manual is not useless, if surely not the best option... > > Gentoo should rely only on its mirrors > for such revision tracking [...] > It means more work for maintainers in every distributions... (not that much, most probably, but this would still be redundant). > > [...] create a php-manual-cvs package > This is what I just did (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126507), but it sure would have been easier if there were version numbers :) The previous Gentoo ebuilds for the manual, used mirrored snapshots... official maintainers probably will do the same with newer snapshots... (though the last snapshots date back to 2005-08-22, which is why I wanted to help...). Anyway, I'm not the Gentoo official maintainer for the PHP manual, so I won't insist. Cya :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-09-03 11:01:07] nlopess@php.net nah, I don't think it worth it.. (old manuals are useless anyway) Gentoo should rely only on its mirrors for such revision tracking *or* create a php-manual-cvs package, for example. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-09-02 19:22:20] mathieu dot bonnet at nalkym dot org Description: ------------ Hi, To ease integration in distributions, if would be nice if PHP manual tarballs (http://www.php.net/distributions/manual/) had versions (date they were generated), and were archived for some time... I'm creating an ebuild (Gentoo Linux) with the "php_manual_<lang>.tar.gz" files (but having versions for the other files -single HTML file and CHM versions- would probably be useful too). Something like "php_manual_<lang>_YYYYMMDD.tar.gz" would do fine... If space is a problem, a new versioned archive every month will do perfectly... (while the non-versioned version would always be the lastest possible, as it is now). If possible, they should be kept for a few semesters, like one or two years... Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38692&edit=1