On Feb 5, 2013 3:58 AM, "Peter Eisentraut" <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > > The installation instructions in the devel branch > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/install-getsource.html > > contain a direct link to the tarball download > > ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.3devel/postgresql-9.3devel.tar.gz > > which doesn't exist. It will presumably exist once there is a final > release, but I think it's bad to have that link broken in the meantime, > especially when beta comes around. It's also not clear whether ftp and > tar.gz are necessarily the preferred download means anymore. > > Should we just provide a link to http://www.postgresql.org/download/ or > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ instead? Or perhaps just "ifdef" > out the broken link in the devel versions?
Linking to /download/ seems like the best thing. Both because it gives you a list of all the options, and because we don't lock into a specific structure on the site. Not that we've change it recently, but links in the docs are very permanent.. /Magnus
