Re: Custom sortation for file browser

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <
> stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
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>> On 10/06/2017 10:16 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com
>>> <mailto:xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>> wrote:
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>>> We probably want some kind of custom sortation for the file browser
>>> page at https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
>>> <https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/>, so v10 is not the last
>>> entry...
>>>
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>>> The file browser currently just sorts by filesystem order. I agree that
>>> it probably wouldn't hurt to do something about that, but it affects other
>>> directories as well (such as the binaries and the snapshots. Also a bunch
>>> of directories in the repo subdirectories, but I'm not sure we care about
>>> those), and they don't use the same naming conventions. So we need
>>> something that's more flexible than a quick-fix (which is why this hasn't
>>> already been done).
>>>
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>> this would also be much less of an issue (for the /source/ version at
>> least) if we didnt actually display 320+ different "versions" on the same
>> page, thats just insane :(
>> This would for example be much easier if we like had one-directory per
>> major version or even split into "current" and "historical/unsupported/..."
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> That's true, but I'm not sure we can realistically change that now. There
> are many people and systems with scripts that rely on that, AFAIK.
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Turns out there was already quite an ugly hack to deal with this, so I just
made it a bit more ugly. Once the caches expire I believe sorting should be
correct.

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