Re: old source tarballs

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave wrote Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:05 PM


> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Umm, no? I mean, literally no? Other than the first+last
> > releases of each stable branch, those files are gone.
>
> Then I'm sorry to hear that. In case my honest opinion matters (hint:
> it doesn't), I think you screwed up big time on this. It wouldn't have
> taken much to do a local backup (hell, I could have launched a wget on
> my server and we'd have a whole clone by now).

I agree.  Many times I've used old binaries to track down faults 
to a small range of commits.  Can't do it now, although I do have quite
a few mingw binaries for 11, 13 and 15 stashed away.

Valentin - could they not be retrieved from backup if you ask
nicely?

Trevor