Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:30:55 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199806232230.SAA09863@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980623160310.17718B-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:04:21 +0300 (IDT))
Subject: Re: [fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu: Patch Level in /v2gnu]
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> I must be dense today.  How would that help people to know whether a 
> given zip file is newer than what they have on their machines, and that 
> therefore they need to download it?

It wouldn't, directly, unless you used
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/ to look inside it first.
However, it might be a reasonable compromise, allowing people to
verify their installed version against what people tell them is the
latest.