Re: Cleaning up the Download options

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:46 PM Umair Shahid <umair.shahid@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:34 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:30 PM Umair Shahid <umair.shahid@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:49 AM Umair Shahid <umair.shahid@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 8:14 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

I've just reviewed all the download options on the website. A number are out of date or have other issues, so I think we need to have a cleanup:

Primary downloads:

- postgresql.org packages are up to date.

- EDB installers are up to date.

- BigSQL installers are up to date.

- postgres.app is up to date.

- Fink is a release behind on 9.4 through 10, and doesn't carry 11 at all as far as I can tell.

- MacPorts is up to date.

- The Homebrew link seems to go to a download site which after many clicks gives me the Windows installer from EDB(!). I've fixed that now. The packages appear to be a release behind on all supported branches.

Thoughts on whether we should make any changes to the Fink and Brew distributions? We used to require that the primary downloads be maintained on our schedule, so by rights they should be removed.

Secondary (third party) downloads:

- LiveCD - this hasn't been updated since 9.6 in December 2016. It should be removed.

- 2UDA - This hasn't been updated since May 2018, and is currently carrying 11beta1, 10.4, 9.6.9 and 9.5.13. I think this should be removed.

I know there is an effort in the works to accommodate Postgres Installer from 2ndQuadrant in the Downloads section somewhere. That is one reason 2UDA hasn't been updated. Perhaps we can redirect the 2UDA traffic to Postgres Installer till we figure out how to restructure the Downloads section? 

I didn't hear back anything on this suggestion. I can get the redirect added quite quickly if there are no objections. 

No, because as I mentioned in my original email, I went on leave. I'm still working through my backlog.

I understand. I didn't mean my comment to be directed at you. 

 

The PostgreSQL installers and 2UDA are different things and should be treated on their own merits in my opinion. We should not have links for one thing that point to something that is obviously quite different.

I think that makes sense. Perhaps we should consider changing the text to better suit Postgres Installer rather than 2UDA here. 

Separate FYI, 2ndQuadrant had restarted efforts on 2UDA anyways and will be making updated packages available before the end of next week. 

FYI, updated 2UDA packages are now available on the said link.