Re: Download links

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Chander Ganesan <chander(dot)ganesan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Download links
Date: 2008-08-29 21:10:52
Message-ID: 20080829211052.GM3983@alvh.no-ip.org
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Chander Ganesan escribió:
> Dave Page wrote:

>> The downside is that this may lead to a couple of extra clicks for
>> people to find what they need. The upside is that the pages they go to
>> will almost certainly have a section for the packages they actually
>> want, and should be more simple and easy to understand.
>>
> I had to spend a bit of time hunting around to find the latest release
> of 8.2.x, in fact, it's not really "indicated" anywhere that "old"
> versions are there. Looking at the /download page, I cannot find a
> single reference to older versions (the big advantage to the old
> format). One has to hunt around until they find the "source code" link
> to locate an older version of postgresql.

There's no usefulness whatsoever to the old versions, so why should they
be linked to?

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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