Re: Notice about EDB downloads

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 3:16 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:

> > On 5 Nov 2021, at 15:12, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:28:33AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> >>> On 4 Nov 2021, at 22:24, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:54 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se
> <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> While in there, could you also add the 14 release to the version
> tables on
> >>> those pages? The 14 installer is available for download but the page
> make it
> >>> seem like it's only 9.6-13 which isn't a good look.
> >>>
> >>> We normally wait for the people who run that end to provide a patch
> for that -- but that usually leaves us in just this situation, with things
> not properly up to date
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps we should see if EDB can provide a metadata file somewhere on
> the site that we could scrape down regularly (say, daily) and have it
> automated?
> >>
> >> Since we regularly find ourselves with out of date information here we
> clearly
> >> need to do something, right now we make it seem like 14 isn't available
> for
> >> download a month out from the release.
> >>
> >> Another option is to just remove the table alltogether and leave the
> platform
> >> support information to the EDB landing page? Since we don't offer
> direct
> >> downloads via deeplinks, separating the platform support info and the
> actual
> >> download is a bit strange anyways.
> >
> > Do we have that kind of chart for any other platform downloads? What
> > value is the chart providing, considering it looks very similar to the
> > EDB download page. Seems the chart is just a maintenance burden with
> > little value and should be removed, as suggested above.
>
> I thint it formalizes the supported OS per release in a way which the EDB
> page
> doesn't, but I don't think it's necessarily the best place to present this
> information as anyone interested would have to flip flop back and forth
> between
> the pages while downloading. Removing it might be the best course of
> action.
>

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I will point out that the
platform support page on the EDB website lists what EDB will support under
contract, which is not necessarily the same as the platform compatibility
list for the PostgreSQL installers (e.g. we'd fix a bug on them specific to
Windows desktop editions, but that's not necessarily something EDB would
support under contract).

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