Thread: Links to externally maintained binary packages
Greetings, people of the web. The issue of binary packaging came up again on a different list, so I did a quick usuability test of the web site about that. Even though there is a prominent "binary" link on the front page (nice), this only links to Red Hat and Windows packages, which certainly could give the impression of a very narrow world view on our part to the users. Moreover, I couldn't find, at least within a few clicks of the various download links, any information about obtaining binaries for other operating systems. I would like to compile a list of links to such sites and insert links to that list on http://www.postgresql.org/download/ and http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v*/. Would that be OK? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
-----Original Message----- From: "Peter Eisentraut"<peter_e@gmx.net> Sent: 19/12/05 18:39:11 To: "pgsql-www@postgresql.org"<pgsql-www@postgresql.org> Subject: [pgsql-www] Links to externally maintained binary packages > I would like to compile a list of links to such sites and insert links > to that list on > http://www.postgresql.org/download/ and No problem. > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v*/. That's a problem - everything under /ftp is auto-generated from the ftp site. You could add a README file which the websitewould display at the bottom of the page. Oh, and fwiw, we do expect to start hosting Solaris binaries Real Soon Now. Regards, Dave -----Unmodified Original Message----- Greetings, people of the web. The issue of binary packaging came up again on a different list, so I did a quick usuability test of the web site about that. Even though there is a prominent "binary" link on the front page (nice), this only links to Red Hat and Windows packages, which certainly could give the impression of a very narrow world view on our part to the users. Moreover, I couldn't find, at least within a few clicks of the various download links, any information about obtaining binaries for other operating systems. I would like to compile a list of links to such sites and insert links to that list on http://www.postgresql.org/download/ and http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v*/. Would that be OK? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Dave Page wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Peter Eisentraut"<peter_e@gmx.net> > Sent: 19/12/05 18:39:11 > To: "pgsql-www@postgresql.org"<pgsql-www@postgresql.org> > Subject: [pgsql-www] Links to externally maintained binary packages > >> I would like to compile a list of links to such sites and insert links >> to that list on >> http://www.postgresql.org/download/ and > > No problem. > >> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v*/. > > That's a problem - everything under /ftp is auto-generated from the ftp > site. You could add a README file which the website would display at the > bottom of the page. Peter, if there are maintainers for other binaries that you'd like to have able to upload *into* our binary section, mind you, arrangements for that can defiitely be made ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664