Re: Bad sorting on source

On 02/18/2014 06:35 AM, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> 2014-02-18 14:14 GMT+09:00 Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> 2014-02-04 20:19 GMT+09:00 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>:
>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2014-02-04 Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> When we go to download PostgreSQL from the website we show ancient
>>>>> versions
>>>>> first:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
>>>>>
>>>>> We should show the current versions first.
>>>>
>>>> I get my source mainly from GIT these days, but now you mention it I've
>>>> been
>>>> annoyed by having to scroll down the growing list to find the latest
>>>> versions,
>>>> so +1 from me. I can put my keyboard where my mouth is if there's some
>>>> coding needed to fix this.
>>>
>>>
>>> I know somebody was working on this before, but I can't actually remember
>>> who it was :O
>>>
>>> I don't think I've seen a patch.
>>>
>>> Thus you are more than welcome to contribute :) git.postgresql.org, project
>>> is "pgweb" :)
>>
>> (...time passes…)
>>
>> Stupid question from someone not terribly familiar with Python frameworks -
>> the installation instructions say "django *version 1.4*", is 1.4 a
>> specific requirement
>> or would later versions work? (I have 1.5.1 available right now).
>
> OK, it looks like 1.4 is needed, I get a "No module named simple" error
> with 1.5.1.

yeah - there is usually not a lot of testing done on newer/older
versions of python/django than what is in Debian Wheezy (or rather
Debian stable at a given time) because that is our deployment target for
production.
Needless to say that we will also take patches for making it work with
newer versions as well to save us some time on the next upgrade ;)

Stefan