Re: pgFoundry Download URLs - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
Date
Msg-id 4B376652.7000407@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to pgFoundry Download URLs  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>)
Responses Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
List pgsql-www
David E. Wheeler wrote:
> See the "2316" in the URL? This is the URL that pgFoundry creates for downloads. Every single download on the site
hasunique ID like this. This makes it possible for a project to predict URLs in advance of a release. This is not
good.
>   

Why is that not good?  If you want a unique namespace for each file set 
published by every project, you have to tag them with a unique prefix, 
and a numeric one is as good as any.

In any case, given that you can bundle the .tar.gz source file with the 
source RPM, linking directly to the source there is an optional shortcut 
anyway.  You'd need to have a pretty serious objection to justify 
changing something here, and I'm not even sure what you don't like.

-- 
Greg Smith    2ndQuadrant   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com  www.2ndQuadrant.com



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