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Subject: Re: Notice about EDB downloads
From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:16:06 +0100
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> On 5 Nov 2021, at 15:12, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>=20
> On Fri, Nov  5, 2021 at 10:28:33AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 4 Nov 2021, at 22:24, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> =
wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:54 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se =
<mailto:daniel@yesql.se>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> While in there, could you also add the 14 release to the version =
tables on
>>> those pages?  The 14 installer is available for download but the =
page make it
>>> seem like it's only 9.6-13 which isn't a good look.
>>>=20
>>> We normally wait for the people who run that end to provide a patch =
for that -- but that usually leaves us in just this situation, with =
things not properly up to date
>>>=20
>>> Perhaps we should see if EDB can provide a metadata file somewhere =
on the site that we could scrape down regularly (say, daily) and have it =
automated?
>>=20
>> Since we regularly find ourselves with out of date information here =
we clearly
>> need to do something, right now we make it seem like 14 isn't =
available for
>> download a month out from the release.
>>=20
>> Another option is to just remove the table alltogether and leave the =
platform
>> support information to the EDB landing page?  Since we don't offer =
direct
>> downloads via deeplinks, separating the platform support info and the =
actual
>> download is a bit strange anyways.
>=20
> Do we have that kind of chart for any other platform downloads?  What
> value is the chart providing, considering it looks very similar to the
> EDB download page.  Seems the chart is just a maintenance burden with
> little value and should be removed, as suggested above.

I thint it formalizes the supported OS per release in a way which the =
EDB page
doesn't, but I don't think it's necessarily the best place to present =
this
information as anyone interested would have to flip flop back and forth =
between
the pages while downloading. Removing it might be the best course of =
action.

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