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

[Even Rouault]

One potential mid-way is to have a 
http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/old_versions 
<http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/> directory where we regularly move 
old tarballs.

Le 25/03/2021 à 07:51, Hans Gregers Hedegaard Petersen a écrit :
> 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 <mailto:steve.lime at state.mn.us>>:
>
>     Hi all: Looking at http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/
>     <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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