Re: Custom sortation for file browser

On 10/06/2017 10:16 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com
> <mailto:xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>> wrote:
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> We probably want some kind of custom sortation for the file browser
> page at /ftp/source/
> </ftp/source/>, so v10 is not the last
> entry...
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> The file browser currently just sorts by filesystem order. I agree that
> it probably wouldn't hurt to do something about that, but it affects
> other directories as well (such as the binaries and the snapshots. Also
> a bunch of directories in the repo subdirectories, but I'm not sure we
> care about those), and they don't use the same naming conventions. So we
> need something that's more flexible than a quick-fix (which is why this
> hasn't already been done).

this would also be much less of an issue (for the /source/ version at
least) if we didnt actually display 320+ different "versions" on the
same page, thats just insane :(
This would for example be much easier if we like had one-directory per
major version or even split into "current" and "historical/unsupported/..."

Stefan