Release versioning inconsistency redux

From: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Release versioning inconsistency redux
Date: 2012-08-27 10:20:24
Message-ID: CABRT9RAjLB8zL7rkdjKK=M7NW+AJ4+vYgkJq=ooPd057y+JC7A@mail.gmail.com
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Hi!

The file/directory naming of PostgreSQL beta releases is inconsistent
again for beta4... We had a discussion about this some time ago.
Please fix.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> wrote:
> The recent 9.2 beta releases have used a slightly different numbering
> scheme than all previous releases.
>
> It used to be that tarballs for version $VER were always available at:
> http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v$VER/postgresql-$VER.tar.bz2
>
> However, the new releases now use "v9.2.0beta2" for the directory
> name, but "9.2beta2" in the tarball file. No big deal for most people,
> but it will confuse people who have scripts to download PostgreSQL
> tarballs automatically (e.g. packagers).

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Dickson S. Guedes <listas(at)guedesoft(dot)net> wrote:
>> May be a symlink could be created just do fit the same pattern that other
>> versions do and keeps the actual links (for beta) working.
>
> That we can do - in fact, done.

Regards,
Marti

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