Re: marking old branches as no longer maintained

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:10, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/11/2011 07:59 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/28/2011 05:31 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On tis, 2011-06-28 at 17:05 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Couldn't you just put a text file on the build farm server with
>>>>>> recommended branches?
>>>>>
>>>>> As I told Magnus, that gets ugly because of limitations in MinGW's SDK
>>>>> perl. I suppose I could just not implement the feature for MinGW, but
>>>>> I've tried damn hard not to make those sorts of compromises and I'm not
>>>>> keen to start.
>>>>
>>>> The buildfarm code can upload the build result via HTTP; why can't it
>>>> download a file via HTTP?
>>>
>>> It has to use a separate script to do that. I don't really want to add
>>> another one just for this.
>>>
>>> (thinks a bit) I suppose I can make it do:
>>>
>>>     my $url = "http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/branches_of_interest.txt";
>>>     my $branches_of_interest = `perl -MLWP::Simple -e
>>> "getprint(q{$url})"`;
>>>
>>> Maybe that's the best option. It's certainly going to be less code than
>>> anything else :-)
>>
>> Could you pull the list of active branches from our web site HTML?
>>
>
> I can, but I'm not that keen on having to do web scraping. Currently my test
> machine (crake) is using the above scheme and it's working fine. It's not a
> huge burden to maintain, after all.

You don't actually need to resort to web scraping - it's available as
well formatted xml (http://www.postgresql.org/versions.rss)

That said, I agree that it's not a huge burden, and probably a better
idea, to do it your current way.

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