Indeed. My "get the Slackware updates" script is at least 8 years old (or that's the last time it needed changing, it is most likely older) and my mirror goes (as far as the patches dir goes) back to release 7.0 - although the scripts most likely started somewhere around 10.x - my main system was on 10.2 (about 2005) for quite some time.
For a still older (486) system that I mostly keep for sentimental reasons (it was my AND my job's first Linux system) I got a full updated mirror of Slackware 4.0 too, but that most certainly wasn't made through these scripts.

My mirror in some versions (especially 9.x and 10.0) has the GUS-BR updates too that were created when Pat was in hospital and couldn't maintain Slackware for some time:

Thanks for info !
Indeed, can't see any differences and the switch couldn't have be easier :-) I just wonder how painful it might have be to do the slackbuild ! I only noticed because I modified it to grab latest version...

Yeah the rust SlackBuilds look rough, but hopefully the .info file is generated programmatically..

I know on my redeclipse SlackBuild, I used some shell commands to get my md5sums generated, but the links to all the downloads I needed to find by hand (especially after their last main update didn't have matching updates in most of the secondary repos, so I had to use commits for each download).

Luckily, I was able to extract all the contents using a pretty simple for loop.