On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, David Fetter wrote:
I seem to recall CPAN has a limit of how many versions they let you
keep around. Two seems far too low. But in any case, if we can't
increase the number on CPAN, is there somewhere else we can keep them?
I can provide public space if it's needed.
Much better would be to put them on pgfoundry.
Better still would be to expire them.
What do you mean by "expire"? We can say they're unsupported but still
preserve an archive of them as a service. Why go to great lengths to put
them in the memory hole?
We don't need to pretend we can afford to support software after the
main line project has stopped doing so.
The main project offers downloads back to Postgres 7.3 on the mirrors, and
a master old site going back to version 1.0 for source, and 7.0 for
binary. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group doesn't "support" them --
it offers them for download, nothing more.
Having those old versions available is extremely valuable in certain
circumstances, not the least of which is the ability to load up an old
binary database and run pg_dump on it. Having old compatible DBD::Pg
versions available is equally important.
Jon
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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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