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From: Misha Bergal (mbergal_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-21 04:54:11


David Abrahams wrote:
> Looking at the FTP server for RC-1_34_0 results, I see
>
[...]

> The ones from Sep 15 are woefully outdated; they're still showing
> errors that I've long since fixed and would like to see dropped from
> the regression report. Surely, by that logic, Bronek[2-6]-v2.zip and
> COMSOFT.zip must be intolerably old... and "RSI Droid2K V2.zip" is
> from July 28!!

The modification dates on those files correctly reflect the date of the
test run.

[...]
> If not, I'd really like to kill the results off so I can begin to see
> the errors I've worked so hard to eliminate actually disappear from
> the reports. It's incredibly frustrating not to be able to make
> visible progress on these.
>
> OK, I tried to make an executive decision and remove all those old
> files, but all I succeeded in doing was somehow setting the
> permissions on "Martin Will V2.zip" to 000. I only used the "delete"
> and "mdelete" ftp commands, so my only remaining guess is that the
> meta-comm FTP server is broken :(

I believe you ftp client needs to support passive mode. ncftp from
cygwin works fine for me, while standard Windows ftp client does not.

--
Misha Bergal
MetaCommunications Engineering

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