Thread: pgAdmin website problems(?)
Sorry to send this to the list, but there's no link for a webmaster. If I'm correct in my observations/questions, hopefully, the responsible party will see this message. I had a few issues with the pgAdmin web site, particularly in regards to pgAdminIII... filename discrepancy(?)... while most files are named as expected, on the page: http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/ 3 files have 'Alpha' in the name, i.e., 'pgadmin3-Alpha-src.tar.gz'. Since all of pgAdminIII files are alpha, and 'Alpha' is capitalized, one could suspect these files are hardware specific for the 'Alpha' cpu, except that there's one for Win32, which, if IIRC, doesn't run on the 'Alpha' chip (at least, not any longer ?). What's the story on the 'Alpha' files? If not for the cpu, why is 'Alpha' capitalized? On this page: http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/wxWindows/ there are 'wxWindows' files, such as: wxWindows-pgAdmin3-20030707.tar.gz Whats the nature of this file? Does it install a complete separate wxWindows installation that could be used by other programs, or is it somehow embedded into the pgadmin binary (i.e., static(?))? Why aren't there 'README.TXT' files for download dirs. Also, there is no link to the wxWindows web site that I can find, not even on the 'Links' page. There should be links to all required software. And no link to the webmaster or other site creation authority. Thank you for your time. -- - Martin J. Brown, Jr. - - mjbjr@mjbjr.com - Public PGP Key ID: 0x8FA6AA61 keyserver: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ Fingerprint: F14E CB7B 7EC9 465D 3349 9139 5602 6FC4 8FA6 AA61
It's rumoured that Martin J. Brown, Jr. once said: > Sorry to send this to the list, but there's no link for a webmaster. If > I'm correct in my observations/questions, hopefully, the responsible > party will see this message. He has :-) > I had a few issues with the pgAdmin web site, particularly in regards > to pgAdminIII... > > filename discrepancy(?)... > while most files are named as expected, on the page: > > http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/ > > 3 files have 'Alpha' in the name, i.e., 'pgadmin3-Alpha-src.tar.gz'. > Since all of pgAdminIII files are alpha, and 'Alpha' is capitalized, > one could suspect these files are hardware specific for the 'Alpha' > cpu, except that there's one for Win32, which, if IIRC, doesn't run on > the 'Alpha' chip (at least, not any longer ?). > > What's the story on the 'Alpha' files? > If not for the cpu, why is 'Alpha' capitalized? They are actually symlinks to the latest versions of the respective tarballs. The capitalisation is purely accidental and certainly doesn't refer to the good old DEC Alpha! I will correct it as soon as I get a minute. > > On this page: > > http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/wxWindows/ > > there are 'wxWindows' files, such as: > > wxWindows-pgAdmin3-20030707.tar.gz > > Whats the nature of this file? > Does it install a complete separate wxWindows installation that could > be used by other programs, or is it somehow embedded into the pgadmin > binary (i.e., static(?))? Because we rely on a cvs snapshot of wxWindows for the Unicode support that is important to us, rather then tell everyone who wants to build pgAdmin from source to get the right CVS version, and add any additional patches, it is packaged here. Unfortunately wxWindows is very unstable at the moment as I believe their team is restructuring the code significantly. > Why aren't there 'README.TXT' files for download dirs. Where there is a need there usually is one, but in most cases you just download and run. Don't forget, we are still building the infrastructure as well, so in numerous places there is work to be done. > Also, there is no link to the wxWindows web site that I can find, not > even on the 'Links' page. There should be links to all required > software. We haven't built the pgAdmin III website yet - the links page is for pgAdmin II. > And no link to the webmaster or other site creation authority. I thought webmaster@domain was a given these days, but even so, my address is on the front page for queries. Regards, Dave.
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 10:21, Martin J. Brown, Jr. wrote: > Why aren't there 'README.TXT' files for download dirs. pgAdmin3 binary snapshots are compiled everyday for various platforms: Win32, GNU/Linux RedHat9, Mandrake91, SuSE82, Slackware, Debiand and FreeBSD. The binaries do not require wxWindows, as it is compiled staticly into pgAdmin3 with debug and Unicode options, with GTK2 bindings. Information can be found here: http://cvs.pgadmin.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/pgadmin3/docs/en_US/snapshots.html What would you think if we modified snapshots.html and moved it to http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/index.html Cheers, Jean-Michel
Dave Page wrote: >>What's the story on the 'Alpha' files? >>If not for the cpu, why is 'Alpha' capitalized? >> Well maybe quite soon we may call pgAdmin3 a beta version?!? I'm not aware of a Beta-CPU :-) Regards, Andreas
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de] > Sent: 09 July 2003 12:48 > To: Dave Page > Cc: mjbjr@mjbjr.com; pgadmin-support@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] pgAdmin website problems(?) > > > Dave Page wrote: > > >>What's the story on the 'Alpha' files? > >>If not for the cpu, why is 'Alpha' capitalized? > >> > Well maybe quite soon we may call pgAdmin3 a beta version?!? > I'm not aware of a Beta-CPU :-) No, but ppl might think it's for a Microsoft OS ;-) Seriously, though, you're right - time for feature freeze... Regards, Dave.