Re: Sourceforge

On 5/28/2015 1:20 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 10:11 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 05/28/2015 10:06 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Based on this:
>>>
>>> https://lwn.net/Articles/646118/
>>>
>>> ... it would be great if someone could check on the various mirrors of
>>> PostgreSQL packages on Sourceforge, and make sure that (a) someone from
>>> our project still owns them, and (b) they're still offering actual
>>> Postgres downloads.
>>>
>>> Overall, I would suggest that we probably want to disable all Postgres
>>> content mirrors on Sourceforge. We don't really have the spare time to
>>> maintain them, and this incident shows that that's a bad situation.
>> According to SF, this donkey has left the field:
>>
>> PostgreSQL
>> A powerful, open source object-relational database system.
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> Thanks.
>
> They do seem to be maintaining up-to-date downloads. Can someone on
> Windows check to see if they're distributing adware?

I just did a fresh install of 9.4.2 on Windows 8. Looked like just the
standard EnterpriseDB packaging to me, gives you the option of doing the
StackBuilder add-ons when complete.

As an aside, though, it doesn't appear that this is where most people
are getting their PostgreSQL:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/postgresql.mirror/files/stats/timeline

Cheers,
Ned

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