| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Troels Arvin" <troels(at)arvin(dot)dk>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Some download statistics |
| Date: | 2005-02-24 21:35:21 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE4769B2@algol.sollentuna.se |
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>>>> Frankly, I'd suggest dropping the splits. Thoughts?
>>
>>> I also found the split sources + a non-split sources version to be
>>> confusing. As you, I think that splitting should be dropped.
>>
>> Perhaps the confusion issue could be addressed by keeping the split
>> sources in a separate subdirectory:
>>
>> pub/source/v.8.0.1/
>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2
>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5
>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz
>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz.md5
>> split-tarballs/
>> postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2
>> postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5
>> etc...
>
>That sounds like a reasonable compromise ... I could do that
>right away,
>if nobody is in disagreement ... ?
Seems reasonable to me.
>> I suspect the demand for the split tarballs is mighty low nowaways,
>> but it's probably not zero yet.
>
>Considering that every new FreeBSD install uses them
>exclusively, I don't
>expect it to drop to zero in the near future ..
Do they pull fromt eh pg mirrors, or from their own? I realise they
still need it, of course, but it'd be interesting to know.
//Magnus
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