David Fetter wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:57:37PM -0600, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Jon Jensen wrote:
I seem to recall CPAN has a limit of how many versions they let
you keep around. Two seems far too low. But in any case, if we
can't increase the number on CPAN, is there somewhere else we can
keep them? I can provide public space if it's needed.
Much better would be to put them on pgfoundry.
Better still would be to expire them. We don't need to pretend we can
afford to support software after the main line project has stopped
doing so.
I don't see any problem at all in archiving old releases and making the
archive public. It doesn't make any promise of support at all. Have a
look at ftp://ftp-archives.postgresql.org/pub/source - it has every
release of postgres since the flood. And we certainly will not be
supporting version 6.0 for example ;-)
Many businesses move slowly to upgrade. That might annoy some people,
but it's often quite sensible from their perspective. Constantly pushing
people to upgrade is somewhat akin to trying to teach a pig to sing ...
cheers
andrew
