Zap ftp site: going, going...

[James Aylett]

Hi, all. This is to announce the slow but inevitable phasing-out of
the Zap ftp site. The website contains its own download area
(/ftp/pub/ for old times' sake, or /downloads/ for simplicity) which
is linked throughout the website, and has been for some time. The
current documentation mentions the ftp site, which is unfortunate;
it would be nice to get say a beta2 of 1.47 out with corrected
documentation before the ftp site dies. If not, there should be
sufficient pointers in the manual, on Google, as so forth, to drive
people to the website.

The website and mailing lists will continue running as normal.
         
The current ftp site will continue running as long as the machine it
lives on. It should be good for a couple of months from now at least,
but I may only get a month's notice if I need to turn it off, which is
why I'm officially deprecating the ftp site now.
         
Those among you with particularly keen attention (or little to do)
will have noticed that snapshots stopped being updated about a month
ago. Since there hasn't been a substantive checkin to the Zap codebase
in what looks like a couple of years, I doubt this will cause problems
to anyone ;-). If we need it again at some point in the future, I'll
bring the snapshots back.
         
Cheers,
James
         
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  James Aylett                                                  xapian.org
  james at tartarus.org                               uncertaintydivision.org