On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:57:37PM -0600, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >>Jon Jensen 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. We don't need to pretend we can > >afford to support software after the main line project has stopped > >doing so. > > I don't see any problem at all in archiving old releases and making > the archive public. It doesn't make any promise of support at all. > Have a look at ftp://ftp-archives.postgresql.org/pub/source - it has > every release of postgres since the flood. And we certainly will not > be supporting version 6.0 for example ;-)
Heh. Excellent point :) > Many businesses move slowly to upgrade. That might annoy some > people, but it's often quite sensible from their perspective. > Constantly pushing people to upgrade is somewhat akin to trying to > teach a pig to sing ... I know! We could put them in the /pub/singing_pig directory :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote!
