Subject: Re: bug#28159: Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:54:11 +0200

Hello,

I just learned that ftp://ftp.gnu.org will be retired on Nov. 1st, 2017,
so we’ll have to implement a replacement for the ‘gnu’ updater at least.

At worst, we’ll parse HTML index files like the one at
<https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/>, but I’m trying to see if the FSF
sysadmin could generate an ‘ls-lR’ file or similar.

Ludo’.