Re: Cleaning up the Download options

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:25 PM David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 04:13:40PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > I've just reviewed all the download options on the website. A number are
> > out of date or have other issues, so I think we need to have a cleanup:
> >
> > Primary downloads:
> >
> > - postgresql.org packages are up to date.
> > - EDB installers are up to date.
> > - BigSQL installers are up to date.
> > - postgres.app is up to date.
> > - Fink is a release behind on 9.4 through 10, and doesn't carry 11 at all
> > as far as I can tell.
> > - MacPorts is up to date.
> > - The Homebrew link seems to go to a download site which after many
> clicks
> > gives me the Windows installer from EDB(!). I've fixed that now. The
> > packages appear to be a release behind on all supported branches.
> >
> > Thoughts on whether we should make any changes to the Fink and Brew
> > distributions? We used to require that the primary downloads be
> maintained
> > on our schedule, so by rights they should be removed.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this, but homebrew keeps in step with
> upstream very quickly, often before some of the others listed above.
>

Not according to https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/postgresql#default

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