Re: Old versions of Octave not available

[David Bateman]

Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> One of the beauties of free software is that people have low barriers to
> accessing old versions for whatever reason they need them.  Unless there
> are disk space problems, I suggest that they be put in a directory named
> "obsolete" or "deprecated", and that robots.txt be set up so to avoid
> search engines to give the direct link to download them directly.
>
>   
Unfortunately, we live within the limitations of the sourceforge file 
release system, so this is not an option.

D.

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