X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3400A9DC95D for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:59:03 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88237-10 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:59:04 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080139DC8D9 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:59:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from mailgate.vale-housing.co.uk ([194.217.48.34] helo=vale-housing.co.uk) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1EwQSI-000IaE-5h for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:50:58 +0000 Received: from 84.13.70.23 ([84.13.70.23]) by ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk ([192.168.1.106]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:59:02 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:59:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Sourceforge and torrenst updated From: Dave Page To: Robert Treat , Devrim GUNDUZ CC: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] Sourceforge and torrenst updated Thread-Index: AcYWKLgc9ogj8oIbEdqnvQARJHpWaA== In-Reply-To: <1136919926.27837.252.camel@camel> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.323 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.070, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.253] X-Spam-Score: 1.323 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200601/57 X-Sequence-Number: 9245 On 10/1/06 19:05, "Robert Treat" wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 13:11, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Robert Treat wrote: >> >>>> I've added new release to sf.net. Also updated the torrents. >>> >>> Whats the deal with the windows binaries on sf? I couldn't find them... are >>> you just waiting on the pginstaller folks? >> >> If we upload Windows binaries, then we need to upload RPMs to (and also >> other binaries). That would be a pain. So I've just uploaded source codes. >> > > Not if you approach it practically (verses politically) Source code > downloads basically exclude the entire windows user base, while > including the *nix user base. Adding win32 binaries balances this out. > Furthermore the majority of people who have trouble using our ftp mirror > system are windows users, so having another outlet to send them to is > really a bonus (and the pgfoundry website doesnt compete with > sourceforges distribution system) Is it worth the effort though? We have thousands of downloads a month, yet we see maybe one or two 'I can't download' messages on webmaster@ in the same period and many of those fall into the 'I tried one which timed out, therefore none of them work' category. Regards, Dave.