Re: marking old branches as no longer maintained

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 06/28/2011 05:31 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tis, 2011-06-28 at 17:05 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>> Couldn't you just put a text file on the build farm server with
> >>> recommended branches?
> >> As I told Magnus, that gets ugly because of limitations in MinGW's SDK
> >> perl. I suppose I could just not implement the feature for MinGW, but
> >> I've tried damn hard not to make those sorts of compromises and I'm not
> >> keen to start.
> > The buildfarm code can upload the build result via HTTP; why can't it
> > download a file via HTTP?
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> It has to use a separate script to do that. I don't really want to add
> another one just for this.
>
> (thinks a bit) I suppose I can make it do:
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> my $url = "http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/branches_of_interest.txt";
> my $branches_of_interest = `perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint(q{$url})"`;
>
> Maybe that's the best option. It's certainly going to be less code than
> anything else :-)

Could you pull the list of active branches from our web site HTML?
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