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Re: Bad link for win32/latest


  • From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
  • To: Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
  • Subject: Re: Bad link for win32/latest
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:49:31 +0200
  • Message-id: <48DCCC4B.4000601@hagander.net> <text/plain>

Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> my vote:
> 
>>>> I can never remember, on what schedule do we remove old versions? Did we
>>>>  say "keep current and one older"? In that case, there is some removing
>>>> to do as well... In binary, for example, we have 8.2.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and
>>>> 10 ATM - that just seems like a waste of space to me. For source, we
>>>> have 8.2.7, 9 and 10, and in the 8.3 series 8.3.1, 3 and 4. We also have
>>>> source/OLD which has 8.3.0, 8.2.5 and 8.2.6. All in all, seems we're not
>>>> very consistent :-(
> 
> I recommend to keep all versions including binaries available. Space is cheap.

We already have "ftp-archive" which keeps the old stuffthat not so many
people want. It's not a matter of removing it, it's a matter of staging
it off to the other area.

//Magnus




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