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To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up the Download options
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 08:59:28 +0100
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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 4:44 AM David Fetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:23:46PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:25 PM David Fetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 04:13:40PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > > > I've just reviewed all the download options on the website. A number
> are
> > > > out of date or have other issues, so I think we need to have a
> cleanup:
> > > >
> > > > Primary downloads:
> > > >
> > > > - postgresql.org packages are up to date.
> > > > - EDB installers are up to date.
> > > > - BigSQL installers are up to date.
> > > > - postgres.app is up to date.
> > > > - Fink is a release behind on 9.4 through 10, and doesn't carry 11
> at all
> > > > as far as I can tell.
> > > > - MacPorts is up to date.
> > > > - The Homebrew link seems to go to a download site which after many
> > > clicks
> > > > gives me the Windows installer from EDB(!). I've fixed that now. The
> > > > packages appear to be a release behind on all supported branches.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts on whether we should make any changes to the Fink and Brew
> > > > distributions? We used to require that the primary downloads be
> > > maintained
> > > > on our schedule, so by rights they should be removed.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you mean by this, but homebrew keeps in step with
> > > upstream very quickly, often before some of the others listed above.
> >
> > Not according to https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/postgresql#default
>
> What I see there: 11.3, 10.6, 9.6.13, 9.5.15, 9.4.21
> The most recent releases: 11.3, 10.8, 9.6.13, 9.5.17, 9.4.22
>
> Is this really drastically out of step, given that a new install, by
> default, would be 11.3?
>
I never said it was drastically out of step. However, those distributions
listed on the "primary" section are expected to be fully up to date, not
months out of date as is the case with some of those branches.
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Dave Page
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