Re: Custom sortation for file browser

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <
stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:

> On 10/06/2017 10:16 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com
>> <mailto:xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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...
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>
> 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/..."

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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