Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

From: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces
Date: 2002-12-03 21:40:15
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.44.0212031639270.34317-100000@paprika.michvhf.com
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > I could have sworn we used to have a bunch of ftp mirrors for downloads.
> > Come to think of it I rewrote/stole a load of Vince's PHP code to allow
> > you to select one from the portal recently. Are we not using them
> > anymore?
>
> Yup, as with doing anything for the firs ttime, the press release itself
> had its 'bugs' ... considering how many times Josh asked for comments on
> it, I'm surprised that nobody picked up on it *shrug*

I understood it was intentional so comments wouldn't have done any good.

> We are looking at some improvements to the download stuff ... Greg(?)
> suggested a layout that I really liked for a web based version that would
> have to tie into the main mirror database ... one that provided a wee bit
> more information then just the directory listings ... but, with that
> thought, isn't there a file you can put into an ftp directory that, when
> you web into that directory, i gives you the listings with various
> comments, or is that just using the .messages file?

All of them I've seen had an index.html in it.

Vince.
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