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@ 2013-02-05 02:58 Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
2013-02-05 06:44 ` Re: source download link in installation instructions Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
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From: Peter Eisentraut @ 2013-02-05 02:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-docs
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?
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* Re: source download link in installation instructions
2013-02-05 02:58 source download link in installation instructions Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
@ 2013-02-05 06:44 ` Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
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From: Magnus Hagander @ 2013-02-05 06:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-docs
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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