[Developers] Physical location of user manuals

[John Sibert]

Just to add to the confusion. The (hopefully) definitive versions of the 
LaTeX for the ADMB user manuals manuals is on the subversion server in 
the docs/manuals subdirectory. I note that most recent revision to 
admb-re.tex is by Hans dated 16 Dec. 2011.

Perhaps there should be some sort of automated system to re-build the 
manuals and upload to the appropriate site?

I also note that admb/admb.tex does not have the $Id: svn keyword as it 
should. I'll deal with it.

John

On 12/16/2011 04:02 AM, Hans J. Skaug wrote:
> Thanks Arni,
>
> You give many good reasons for keeping things as the are.
> Please forget my request.
>
> Hans
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arni Magnusson [mailto:arnima at hafro.is]
>> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:52 PM
>> To: Hans J. Skaug
>> Cc: developers at admb-project.org
>> Subject: Re: Physical location of user manuals
>>
>> So far, the division has been something like this:
>>
>>
>> * http://code.google.com/p/admb-project/downloads/list
>>
>> Everything the general user needs. The program and user manuals on a
>> single organized page. We take a deep breath before submitting a new
>> release. Things should work and are fully supported by the ADMB
>> Development Team.
>>
>>
>> * http://admb-project.org/
>>
>> Everything else. Tons of stuff in a deeply nested tree. We
>> put stuff here
>> all the time, delete and shuffle around. Things may not work,
>> and are in
>> many cases irrelevant for the general user.
>>
>>
>> I think it has worked well to use separate sites for these
>> two purposes.
>> It's also worth noting that Google has mirrors around the world, so
>> downloads will be fast in remote places like South Africa and
>> Iceland. In
>> my case the download speed difference is 3x between a Swedish Google
>> mirror and our server in Santa Barbara.
>>
>> The download counter is not only cool, but a useful
>> information about our
>> user base and what platforms are being used. (Who's that
>> mysterious user
>> downloading ADMB for Solaris? Was that you, Johnoel?)
>>
>>
>> Arni
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Hans J. Skaug wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to update the online manuals for ADMB-RE at:
>>>
>>> http://admb-project.org/documentation/manuals/admb-user-manuals
>>>
>>> but find that the actual files sit on google servers.
>>>
>>> Is there any reason that these files should not be on the
>> plone server?
>>> Hans
>>>
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John Sibert
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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