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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: source download link in installation instructions
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 07:44:16 +0100
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On Feb 5, 2013 3:58 AM, "Peter Eisentraut" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The installation instructions in the devel branch
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/install-getsource.html
>
> contain a direct link to the tarball download
>
> ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.3devel/postgresql-9.3devel.tar.gz
>
> which doesn't exist.  It will presumably exist once there is a final
> release, but I think it's bad to have that link broken in the meantime,
> especially when beta comes around.  It's also not clear whether ftp and
> tar.gz are necessarily the preferred download means anymore.
>
> Should we just provide a link to http://www.postgresql.org/download/ or
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ instead?  Or perhaps just "ifdef"
> out the broken link in the devel versions?

Linking to /download/ seems like the best thing. Both because it gives you
a list of all the options, and because we don't lock into a specific
structure on the site. Not that we've change it recently, but links in the
docs are very permanent..

/Magnus

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