Re: [Phpmyadmin-devel] Keeping older releases to download

Michal Čihař a écrit :

Hi all

our current policy was to delete old releases from sf.net once newer release is available. I find this not so good idea, for following reasons:

• people might be interested in looking at older releases without using vcs
• distributions ship some older releases and it is good if users can verify that they ship intact tarball as we've distributed it
• most free software projects simply keep all their released files around

Are there any objections against keeping all what we've released?

When you say "all" I hope you're not talking about non-final releases?

It's OK for me (for final releases).

I was the one who deleted older releases, mostly to avoid offering kits with security problems, and to have a cleaner download page. With about ten releases per year I feared the page would become cluttered over time.

What about deleted kits? I don't have the time to recreate all these.