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Subject: Re: Add AIX on the PostgreSQL Download page
From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 16:26:37 +0200
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> On 7 Sep 2021, at 16:10, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 9/7/21 4:06 AM, REIX, Tony wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I am interested in knowing if AIX could be added to the PostgreSQL =
page
>> https://www.postgresql.org/download/ , either as a link to a =
PostgreSQL
>> web-site page where instructions can be given and updated about where =
to
>> get RPMs for AIX and how to install them, plus news about new =
versions
>> and releases, or a link to a page out of PostgreSQL web-site.
>>=20
>> We (Bull/ATOS BullFreeware: http://www.bullfreeware.com,  and IBM AIX
>> ToolBox:
>> =
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-overview)=

>> are providing OpenSource packages (inc. PostgreSQL) for AIX under RPM
>> format since ages and we'd like to enable PostgreSQL for AIX to be =
more
>> visible by PostgreSQL users.
>=20
> Looking at the available packages[1], it does not appear that all of =
the
> community supported versions are updated (e.g. the last 9.6 updates =
were
> in 2018). It also seems that package updates are random -- e.g. there
> was a 13.1 release, and a 13.4 release, which misses several bug fix +
> security releases, and they come out several weeks after the release.

Do we have a strict policy around this?  Some package managers are still =
at
13.3 ~ a month out and the Fink macOS package manager doesn=E2=80=99t =
have v13 at all
AFAICT?

> I'd be more open to this if the packages themselves were hosted on
> community infrastructure and were consistent with the rest of the
> packaging projects.

That seems a high bar to cross given that we don=E2=80=99t host macOS, =
Windows and the
BSD=E2=80=99s today but link to those.

> Right now I'm -1 on this; additionally, I'm
> generally -1 to adding more additional offsite links to downloads.

Unrelated but semi-related, if we don=E2=80=99t want new links we should =
probably
remove the Solaris download link which doesn=E2=80=99t even link to =
downloadable
packages.

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