Hi,

I am pleased to announce the current development version Harvest-1.7.4.


Please, DON'T use 1.7.3. It has a serious bug and can delete local
files, so anybody who wants to try the development version of Harvest
should either use 1.7.2 or try this version.


Here is a short explanation what happened:

Current implementation of the Harvest's gatherer works like this:

   - Get the object
   - Process the object
   - Delete the object

There is a special feature that allows to gather objects bypassing the
HTTP Server to reduce CPU load. It can be used by adding:

---------
Local-Mapping: http://your.host.do.main/~myself/ /home/myself/public_html/

<RootNodes>
http://your.host.do.main/~myself/
</RootNodes>
---------

This will bypass the first step (get the object) and should bypass the
third step (delete the object) but due to a bug, it doesn't. So if the
gatherer process has permission to delete the original object, the
original object will be deleted. It is recommended always to run
Harvest with as a user with restrictive permission like "nobody" to
prevent such disasters.


What's new:

- Gatherer bugfix.

  A bug introduced in 1.7.3 which caused deletion of nested files like
  tar, tar.gz, tar.Z files when used with "Local-Mapping" feature
  was fixed.
  Instead of bookeeping unnested objects, Harvest now deletes the
  unnestdir after successfully processing a nested object.

You can get more information about this versions of Harvest at:

 http://www.arco.de/~kj/

Note:
The download location has changed. To download Harvest and related
files, point your browser to:

 http://www.t-online.de/~kjlee

Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the changes of the URL, but it
may be necessary to change the location again in the near future until
I have found a place for Harvest.

Thank you.

kj