Re: sf.net download page - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: sf.net download page
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Msg-id 200801072058.m07Kwr613984@momjian.us
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In response to sf.net download page  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: sf.net download page  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-www
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Somebody needs to update the download pages at sourceforge.net.
> 
> Or... I'll just throw this one out again. Why don't we remove those ;-)
> Previously there was actually a reason for it, since they provided http
> downloads and our own mirror network only provided ftp. But our network now
> supports both http and ftp downloads, so I don't really see the point of
> keeping them. And since we have a tradition of updating them weeks or
> months after the actual releases, let's just drop them?
> 
> (For the record, they've had about 100 downloads so far this year, compared
> to about 2.5 million from the main site.)

With 100 downloads this year it is hard to argue that it is worth the
effort keeping the sourceforge files.  Just point them at
www.postgresql.org and be done with it.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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