From Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Fri Mar 10 10:34:01 2000
From: Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:34:01 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] README & Apache
Message-ID: <14536.53145.633068.790805@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>



Due to recent config changes Apache does (by default) not list files
called ``README'' anymore but only prints the contents. This can be a
hassle if you want to download the file ...

As we have no control over all CRAN mirrors we can therefore only
rename the files such that they get listed again. Brian Ripley
suggested to use ReadMe instead which seems to be safe (at least
currently).

I have renamed all files on CRAN over which I have control (i.e., the
ones we do not mirror from some other place), Brian has done his
subtree.

**This applies only to people maintaining CRAN subtrees**: Please
rename all files called README that people might want to download to
ReadMe (or some other safe name). Attached you find a list of
candidates.

The reason why I'm writing this to r-devel is that we want to
discourage the use of name ``README'' for future submissions. I will
configure the CRAN master site in a minute such that it prints
ReadMe's, but also lists the file in the directory listing.

Best,
Fritz

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galadriel:R$ find -name README
./bin/windows/README
./bin/windows/windows-NT/base/README
./bin/windows/windows-NT/README
./bin/osf/osf4.0/tar/alpha_ev5/README
./bin/osf/osf4.0/RPMS/alpha_ev5/source/README
./bin/osf/osf4.0/RPMS/README
./bin/osf/osf4.0/RPMS/alpha_ev6/source/README
./bin/osf/osf4.0/README
./bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/contrib/README
./bin/linux/redhat/6.x/sparc/README
./bin/linux/redhat/6.x/i386/README
./bin/linux/redhat/6.x/alpha/README
./bin/linux/linuxppc/5.0/README
./bin/linux/suse/5.3/RPMS/i386/source/README
./bin/linux/suse/5.3/RPMS/i386/README
./bin/linux/suse/6.0/RPMS/i386/source/README
./bin/linux/suse/6.0/RPMS/i386/README
./bin/linux/suse/6.2/RPMS/i386/source/README
./bin/linux/suse/6.2/RPMS/i386/README
./bin/linux/suse/README
/bin/linux/suse/6.3/RPMS/i386/README
./src/base/README
./src/base/Historic/Windows/README
./src/base/Historic/README

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[Rd] README & Apache
Friedrich Leisch