Re: Bad sorting on source

On 02/04/2014 09:09 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 02/04/2014 12:19 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com
>> <mailto:barwick@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     2014-02-04 Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com
>>     <mailto:jd@commandprompt.com>>:
>>     >
>>     > Hey,
>>     >
>>     > When we go to download PostgreSQL from the website we show ancient
>>     versions
>>     > first:
>>     >
>>     > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
>>     >
>>     > We should show the current versions first.
>>
>>     I get my source mainly from GIT these days, but now you mention it
>>     I've been
>>     annoyed by having to scroll down the growing list to find the latest
>>     versions,
>>     so +1 from me. I can put my keyboard where my mouth is if there's some
>>     coding needed to fix this.
>>
>>
>> I know somebody was working on this before, but I can't actually
>> remember who it was :O
>>
>> I don't think I've seen a patch.
>>
>> Thus you are more than welcome to contribute :) git.postgresql.org
>> <http://git.postgresql.org>, project is "pgweb" :) 
> 
> hmm pretty sure I actually had a patch somewhere - not entirely sure I
> can find it again :)

while investigating an unrelated issue I actually found that code again
- I have now pushed a quick fix that should make the sorting much more
sensible, at least for the main postgresql sources...



Stefan