Re: PostgreSQL package download for Solaris 11.4

On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 08:27, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:00 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:53:12PM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > > On 8/22/22 14:29, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > > > On 8/15/22 5:37 AM, Marcel Hofstetter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We would like to make it easier for Solaris users
> > > > > to use PostgreSQL.
> > > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > Would be nice if you could add this link to
> > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/download/solaris/
> > > >
> > > > Personally (and stated in earlier threads) I am not a fan of linking
> > > > offsite to downloads. If you wanted to make the downloads available
> on
> > > > community infrastructure, I could get behind that.
> > >
> > > Since as of now only this:
> > >
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/
> > >
> > > has links that stay on site I'm saying the ship has sailed on that.
> >
> > +1
>
> Agreed.
>
> Now if we are talking about providing Solaris downloads on our own
> site again, that's definitely something we can discuss. IIRC not a
> single person comlpained/noted when we removed them when they stopped
> being maintained -- but no complaints doesn't mean that nobody is
> using them. And if Marcel is willing to commit to maintaining them
> again, then we should definitely consider it. But that includes things
> like timely updates after every minor release, and maintaining all
> versions, not just 13 and 14 (assuming there is not a technical reason
> making it *impossible* to build other versions).
>
>
> > Also, I don't think it's fair to complain about the javascript part.
> While I
> > agree it's laughable that it's now apparently impossible to find a page
> that
> > displays text or links without millions of lines code of javascript, EDB
> is
> > AFAICS currently exactly doing that. On my browser (which always runs
> with
> > javascript disabled), I see
> > https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads is
> > yielding "Not supported" for all major versions on Windows.
>
> Please report that as a bug to EDB (webmaster(at)enterprisedb(dot)com),
> because I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to be.
>

It's definitely not.

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