[mapserver-dev] Downloads for old versions... do we need them?

[Hans Gregers Hedegaard Petersen]

Hi Steve,

I am answering from a fruity handheld device, so am unable to answer inline.

As someone maintaining installations off the usual grid - for instance
proxied through other layers, or simply on LAN, I can say that I have
appreciated the very thing you are against. It is quite a job trying to
find an old version of a lib or tool required, once developers pull them
off the net.

I have been building my own bucket of versions of libraries I have happened
to stumble upon. Just in case - and have needed it several times. Currently
it is mostly obscure libraries people thought was fun to include in the
early 2000s, but anyway. I see no harm in providing old versions as long as
it is clearly stated that they are old and obsolete.


Best,

Greg

tor. 25. mar. 2021 kl. 01.31 skrev Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <
steve.lime at state.mn.us>:

> Hi all: Looking at http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/ it seems strange
> to me to offer access old versions of the software for download that we
> wouldn’t want anyone using. Many will have security issues or other bugs
> that have been long since resolved. If someone really wants an old release
> it can be obtained from the git repo. What do folks think about only
> offering downloads for the versions that we’d consider under maintenance?
>
>
>
> Personally I consider that 6.4.6 , 7.4.4 and 7.6.2 – and those 3 may be
> too much. Same thing goes for MapCache and TinyOWS.
>
>
>
> --Steve
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