Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

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.

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