Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
Date: 2009-12-29 10:50:36
Message-ID: 4B39DEFC.4050206@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 11:42 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>> On Dec 28, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>
>>>> The user experience is quite a bit more important than people with
>>>> scripts such as Devrim's. If we are going to offer the service we should
>>>> do so in a manner that is useful and productive to the consumers of that
>>>> service.
>>> That includes scriptability, so that third parties can build services on top of it.
>> Certainly. I am just saying that if we have 20 people it will negatively
>> impact and 20,000 it will positively impact.. the 20 people need to suck
>> it up.
>
> Presumably the packages that rely on the existing URLs are actually
> being used by large numbers of end-users, who will all be sad if they
> break.

I might be wrong but I don't think we have that many users that are
regulary rebuilding rpms from source with the original tar.gz being on
pgfoundry...

Stefan

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