Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2009/12/29 Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>:
>> 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...
>
> Well, the big users would be Devrim (RPMs) and I guess whomever does
> debian packages of the things.
>
> But there are quite a number of companies that build their own RPMs,
> either completely on their own or off slightly modified specs.

well yeah but that might sum up to a dozends of people that will have to
wit for an updated spec file vs. we having to hack up fusionforge code
and have it maintained over years...

Stefan