On 28/05/2003 20:32 Henrik Steffen wrote:
> would be nice to have it on the download page,
> so one doesn't need to download the complete tarball...
>
> just an idea ;-)
+1
Unfortunately (IMO) PG seems to follow something of a trend in OSS of
announcing a release but not saying what has changed in that announcement
(or even pointing to a URL which lists the changes). OK, so I'm sitting
here on a DSL line and can download 7.3.3 (maybe 3-4 minutes), un-pack it
and look at the history file then either install or ignore the release as
I see fit. I'm one of the lucky ones. Many people are not so lucky and
have to download on a metred 56K dial-up line - probably taking something
like 1.5 hours. Don't these people deserve some consideration? How much
effort would it take to provide a bullet list of changes since the last
release externally to the download? Not a lot IMHO. Come on guys, you've
got a great product, with generally good documentation, why let yourselves
down on this point?
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