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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Chander Ganesan <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Download links
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:10:52 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Chander Ganesan escribió:
> Dave Page wrote:

>> The downside is that this may lead to a couple of extra clicks for
>> people to find what they need. The upside is that the pages they go to
>> will almost certainly have a section for the packages they actually
>> want, and should be more simple and easy to understand.
>>   
> I had to spend a bit of time hunting around to find the latest release  
> of 8.2.x, in fact, it's not really "indicated" anywhere that "old"  
> versions are there.  Looking at the /download page, I cannot find a  
> single reference to older versions (the big advantage to the old  
> format).  One has to hunt around until they find the "source code" link  
> to locate an older version of postgresql.

There's no usefulness whatsoever to the old versions, so why should they
be linked to?

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



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