Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

From: Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
Date: 2009-12-28 21:02:42
Message-ID: 1d4e0c10912281302w1edc543dsf481e977f0ce9873@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> We mirrored the internal structure (and then moved a bunch of
> downloads so they didn't point to pgfoundry) because gforge was a
> bottleneck for things like installers which can clock up tens of
> thousands of downloads per week.
>
> I don't recall anyone ever complaining that they couldn't have
> multiple files with the same name on pgFoundry (frankly, it sounds
> like a recipe for disaster), but I can envisage the structure change
> causing pain for people.

We can keep the old behaviour if people accept the limitation and
agree that we should patch FusionForge for it.

And if we do so, we can also change the public URI to be static (and
keep the old ones in parallel, of course).

--
Guillaume

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