Re: Bug in Dbd-Pg?

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, David Fetter wrote:

>> Last time I brought this up on the list there were some strong 
>> disagreements about ending 7.3 support, but I don't see that happening 
>> this time barring some insanely good reason I'm overlooking. :)
>
> I know there are people who won't upgrade software.  They get to stick 
> with old versions of everything, not just of some things.

I think it's pretty reasonable to expect people to use an old version of 
DBD::Pg to match their old version of Postgres. However, it can be a real 
pain if you can't *get* the old version anymore. CPAN only has the current 
and next-most-recent version of DBD::Pg available:

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DB/DBDPG/

At the moment that doesn't hurt me, but it has in the past when I had to 
support a shop using Postgres 7.2 for far too long, and couldn't find a 
source tarball of a matching DBD::Pg to put on a new machine. Sure, I may 
be able to get it out of version control, with some effort and without the 
certainty I'm dealing with the same code. But why not just leave the old 
versions around where they're easy to get at?

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.

Thanks,
Jon

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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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