Re: Bad sorting on source

2014-02-18 15:41 GMT+09:00 Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>:
> 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.

Aha, I see. I was just floundering slightly due to previous 0% experience.
Anyway got it working now with much less effort than I anticipated :)

> 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 ;)

First things first… Django 1.4 seems to be a LTS edition anyway ;)

Regards

Ian Barwick