Thread: win32 installer page in pgfoundry is wrong
Hi, There is an announcement at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller/ titled Don't look here for announcements which contains an URL: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32 This URL returns a 404. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Hi, > > There is an announcement at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller/ > titled > Don't look here for announcements > which contains an URL: > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32 > > This URL returns a 404. Um, yeah, who removed that symlink? And why? If there was a good reason, we should change the links into it. If it was done by mistake, the symlink should just be put back :-) //Magnus
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There is an announcement at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller/ >> titled >> Don't look here for announcements >> which contains an URL: >> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32 >> >> This URL returns a 404. > > Um, yeah, who removed that symlink? And why? If there was a good reason, > we should change the links into it. If it was done by mistake, the > symlink should just be put back :-) It was removed a while back as it was only ever supposed to be a temporary measure to help the new windows users when we released 8.0 ('cos apparently some people thought they wouldn't be able to navigate the FTP site with the same effectiveness as *nix users). -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> There is an announcement at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller/ >>> titled >>> Don't look here for announcements >>> which contains an URL: >>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32 >>> >>> This URL returns a 404. >> Um, yeah, who removed that symlink? And why? If there was a good reason, >> we should change the links into it. If it was done by mistake, the >> symlink should just be put back :-) > > It was removed a while back as it was only ever supposed to be a > temporary measure to help the new windows users when we released 8.0 > ('cos apparently some people thought they wouldn't be able to navigate > the FTP site with the same effectiveness as *nix users). Ok. link updated. //Magnus