Re: Old versions directories on the ftp site

On 05/10/2010 18:50, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 19:44, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>> We have a policy to keep two (IIRC) versions of each version in the
>>> ftp site. How about we stick a README file in all the ones that are
>>> not current saying something along the line of "NOTE! This is an old
>>> release available for historical reasons only. You should probably use
>>> the latest one". That will automatically render it up on the website,
>>> which should make it at least theoretically possible that someone
>>> reads it..
>>
>> I thought all the really old versions were pushed over to ftp-archive
>> already?
>>
>> I should think that someone who chooses to look into an 8.1
>> subdirectory, when there are 8.2 etc right next to it, is already
>> well aware that he's grabbing an old version. I'm not sure that
>> this proposal offers more than an annoying nag message.
>
> I'm not talking about 8.1 vs 8.2. I'm talking about 8.4.3 vs 8.4.5.
> And I'm aiming at people following direct links from other sites (or
> our own news)

Would there be merit in redirecting people looking for, say, 8.4.3 to
8.4.latest?

Ray.

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