Re: front page "download 10 rc 1"

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Sep 29, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> The .org front page has a link named "Download 10 RC 1", but it links to
> this page:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/
>
> However, that page caters to production releases. It may be possible to
> click around enough from that page to figure out how to install 10rc1, but
> it sure ain't easy.
>
>
> That is a fair point; for Beta / RC releases, we could point directly to
> the file browser to where they can be downloaded.
>

I think this would be the best one:

https://www.postgresql.org/download/snapshots/. I eventually got there,
after trying all the alternatives.

>
> (And I haven't managed to find it all for Windows)
>
> Is there a better page we can link to that is specifically for installing
> 10rc1, for people who don't want to compile it themselves?
>
>
> The issue here is that I don’t believe there are installers built for all
> of the distributions. If all of the package maintainers do this, then we
> could further improve the linking.
>

But letting people know "Yeah, there isn't a way to do that on our
platform, sorry" would be nice, to avoid a lot of frustration. (I don't
know who would catalog what can't be done, though)

Cheers,

Jeff