Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Marc wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope, for one simple reason ... if, for some reason, at some point in
>>>> the future, we have to regenerate everything anyway (ie. the last time
>>>> we did a major template change for the archives), all the #'ng is going
>>>> to end up reverting back to what it is now ... so we'd only be 'delaying
>>>> the inevitable' ...
>>>>
>>>> On July 17th.
>>>>
>>>> Joshua D. Drake
>>>
>>> If you look below you will see my idea was to hack the script to always
>>> use the method of putting newly found items numerically at the end for
>>> pre-July 2006 dumps. That addresses Marc's concern.
>>>
>>> Marc hasn't responded so I assume he is busy and will hack on this when
>>> he gets back.
>>
>> Yup, been busy dealing with an Adaptec driver issue, will try and get
>> something hacked up over the coming weekend, sorry for the delay ...
>
> Thanks. When talking via IM I didn't get the sense whether you agreed
> that this was a good idea or not, so I figured I should ask on the lists
> so others know it is in process.

Oh, I still don't think its a good idea, but understand why ...

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