Re: Bad sorting on source

On 02/04/2014 09:09 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 02/04/2014 12:19 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com
>> <mailto:barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> 2014-02-04 Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
>> <mailto: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
>> <http://git.postgresql.org>, project is "pgweb" :)
>
> hmm pretty sure I actually had a patch somewhere - not entirely sure I
> can find it again :)

while investigating an unrelated issue I actually found that code again
- I have now pushed a quick fix that should make the sorting much more
sensible, at least for the main postgresql sources...

Stefan