Each site may mirror a number of series from any number of archives. If an archive does not wish the papers to be mirrored, then it will store them out of this hierarchy. Providing software Archives may provide software for other archives to use. Services are encouraged to provide software that allows the construction of identical services on many sites. A software packages is a set of software files that together perform a particular function.
All software is written in perl .
For example, the ALL archive provides mirror and webcopy, two sets of scripts to mirror ftp and http based archives respectively. The latter is not necessary if programme does not use a configuration file. If it is not set, then it assumes, that current directory is RePEc directory of the local archive. Under Unix scripts should be aware of the optional trailing backslash. You are welcome to adapt it in your programmes.