MySQL Bugs: #67173: Please put MySQL proxy on archives page

Bug #67173	Please put MySQL proxy on archives page
Submitted:	10 Oct 2012 8:04	Modified:	29 Oct 2012 12:07
Reporter:	Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor)	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Proxy: Install/Config	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	pre 0.82	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The archives page http://downloads.mysql.com/archives.php does not refer MySQL Proxy.

Further I can see that FTP-mirrors were cleaned up on Oct.8th (the timestamp for the folder ftp://ftp.easynet.be/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-Proxy/ is '08-10-2012 12:42:00') and now everything before 0.82 is gone here.

(tried to pick the best category)

How to repeat:
Se above.

Suggested fix:
Add MySQL proxy to the archive page including old versions.

Thank you for the bug report.

I think this is more than D4.

The page http://downloads.mysql.com/archives.php says "We provide these as a courtesy to our users, who may need to duplicate an existing installation based on older versions of our software."

This is exactly the scenario.  We sometimes need to replicate the environment of a user/customer.  Additionally in particular 0.71 (what is no longer available now) is 'rock-solid' for lots of use cases - even if it does not have the same set of features as 0.8x.  0.71 is also easier/simpler to configure.

Archives for the old 0.7 Alpha versions of MySQL Proxy will not be maintained on the archives page, these are pre-release versions that are more than 3 years old now. As with pre-5.0 versions that are no longer supported not being shown, this is the case with the MySQL Proxy 0.7 releases as well (though in this case, MySQL Proxy was never marked as GA supported, as well)

Source packages for people that wish to build this version themselves are available here:

https://launchpad.net/mysql-proxy/+download