Dries Buytaert wrote:
They will still be able to find them through our web interface to CVS. Maybe they should speak to you about an upgrade...
Interested parties wil observe that there aren't any earlier releases than 4.5 listed on drupal.org. Our policy was always to support the latest two releases. If we do support, then we offer tarballs, if we don't we don't.
Unless something better comes up, I will remove the files tomorrow.
No, you won't.
Right. This answer was about the only thing that could stop me.
I don't remember having deleted _any_ old releases. When did this become a policy? When where the other old releases deleted? Who decided this?
I have absolutely no idea. I had assumed it was you. I know that Drupal 3 and early 4 realeases were not available for quite some time. Probably before I got access to the infrastructure.
IMO, it is better to keep old releases around. People with a clue know that these might be insecure. This is such basic knowledge that believing otherwise is almost insulting.
You assume that people have a clue. That might be an error.
If you deleted old releases (without asking), you deleted the original Drupal 1.0.0 and Drupal 2.0.0 release. These were not in CVS yet. I hope that these are still around!
They are not, but I didn't delete them either. I had removed the Drupal 4.7 betas and RCs and contrary to what you said did not delete them but only moved them outside the htdocs tree.
As I mentioned before, with enough people to help, I'd be happy to commit patches to the DRUPAL-4-5 and DRUPAL-4-6 branch. Whether it is officially maintained or not.
I still think this is a bad idea, but your decision. I have removed most of the 4.5 modules that I released from distribution as I believe that the only other possibility would be to fix both 4.5 core and the modules. The first is probably not going to happen and I have no desire to do the latter. Cheers, Gerhard