Re: IMPORTANT: Out-of-cycle release scheduled for November 21, 2024

On 11/20/24 10:08 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 09:51:09PM -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> On 11/20/24 9:50 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> On 11/20/24 9:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>>>> so when we decided to remove the downloads
>>>>
>>>>> Can you elaborate on who "we" is here?
>>>>
>>>> More to the point, what downloads were removed?  I still see the
>>>> source tarballs in the usual place [1].  If some packager(s) removed
>>>> or never posted derived packages, that's on them not the project.
>>>
>>> Downloads weren't removed, and I don't see why we'd want to do so in
>>> this case.
>>
>> Maybe here's the confusion - EDB doesn't have the downloads for the latest
>> released posted on the Windows installer:
>>
>> https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
> 
> Yes, or for MacOS.

Well, why did EDB remove them? We didn't issue any guidance to remove 
downloads. We only provided guidance to users on decision making about 
whether to wait or not around the upgrade. All of the other packages 
hosted on community infrastructure (and AFAICT other OS distros) are all 
available.

Jonathan