Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:39:03 -0400 (AST)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases
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'k, moved it all into OLD as well ... haven't removed anything until more 
opt in on this ... I do agree that if you really want that old, you can 
build from scratch, but I'm also not the one that went to the trouble of 
building the binaries :)


On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Someone suggested earlier that we should drop the binaries for
> nonsupported versions completely from the ftp site. Thoughts on this?
>
> If not, they should at least go into OLD as well. But personally, I'm
> for dropping them completely. If you're on something that old (heck, we
> have 7.0 binaries..), you can still build from source.
>
> Speaking of which, any reason not to drop the 8.1 beta win32 binaries?
>
> //Magnus
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
>> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:31 PM
>> To: Robert Treat
>> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-www@postgresql.org;
>> Tom Lane; Andrew Dunstan
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases
>>
>>
>> Done, as well as moved all but the last two of each version after ...
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Robert Treat wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:40, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Personally I expect to keep supporting 7.3 for a long
>> while, because
>>>> Red Hat pays me to ;-) ... and the EOL date for RHEL3 is a
>> long way away yet.
>>>> The PG community may stop bothering with 7.3 releases
>> before that.
>>>> But I think Marc and Bruce figure "as long as the patches
>> are in our
>>>> CVS we may as well put out a release".
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, thats one of the reasons I am skeptical about having official
>>> policies on this type of thing.  If Sun decided they wanted to
>>> maintain 7.2 and were going to dedicate developers and
>> testing for it,
>>> would we really turn that away?  OK, I don't really want to
>> have this
>>> discussion again, but as of now I think we are all agreed
>> that 7.2 is unsupported.
>>>
>>>> We hashed all this out in the pghackers list back in August, but I
>>>> agree there ought to be something about it on the website.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We've been kicking it around but haven't moved much on this...
>>>
>>> Marc, can you move the 7.2 branches in the FTP under the
>> OLD directory?
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
>>>
>>> We need to do the same with 7.2 documentation, moving them into the
>>> Manual Archive
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive.html.
>>> We can also change the caption on the main documentation
>> page to note
>>> these are manuals for the current supported versions.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert Treat
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