Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases

Someone suggested earlier that we should drop the binaries for
nonsupported versions completely from the ftp site. Thoughts on this?

If not, they should at least go into OLD as well. But personally, I'm
for dropping them completely. If you're on something that old (heck, we
have 7.0 binaries..), you can still build from source.

Speaking of which, any reason not to drop the 8.1 beta win32 binaries?

//Magnus


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:31 PM
> To: Robert Treat
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-www@postgresql.org;
> Tom Lane; Andrew Dunstan
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases
>
>
> Done, as well as moved all but the last two of each version after ...
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Robert Treat wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Personally I expect to keep supporting 7.3 for a long
> while, because
> >> Red Hat pays me to ;-) ... and the EOL date for RHEL3 is a
> long way away yet.
> >> The PG community may stop bothering with 7.3 releases
> before that.
> >> But I think Marc and Bruce figure "as long as the patches
> are in our
> >> CVS we may as well put out a release".
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, thats one of the reasons I am skeptical about having official
> > policies on this type of thing.  If Sun decided they wanted to
> > maintain 7.2 and were going to dedicate developers and
> testing for it,
> > would we really turn that away?  OK, I don't really want to
> have this
> > discussion again, but as of now I think we are all agreed
> that 7.2 is unsupported.
> >
> >> We hashed all this out in the pghackers list back in August, but I
> >> agree there ought to be something about it on the website.
> >>
> >
> > We've been kicking it around but haven't moved much on this...
> >
> > Marc, can you move the 7.2 branches in the FTP under the
> OLD directory?
> > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
> >
> > We need to do the same with 7.2 documentation, moving them into the
> > Manual Archive
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive.html.
> > We can also change the caption on the main documentation
> page to note
> > these are manuals for the current supported versions.
> >
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