Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
macOS has deprecated linking with included scripting languages such as TCL, Perl and Python. For this reason, we've been building PostgreSQL on old VMs with macOS 10.12 for some time. Unfortunately, the latest version of some libraries no longer build on macOS 10.12 (proj4 7.1 and ICU 67.1 specifically) and it's only a question of time before other libraries will no longer build anymore as well. For this reason, I've decided to finally make the jump to building PostgreSQL 13 on a more recent OS (macOS 10.15).
This means we can no longer link with the system provided Perl, TCL, and Python. For Python we found a different solution (users should install Python 3.8 from python.org, see issue #551 and https://postgresapp.com/documentation/plpython.html).
However, for PL/Perl and PL/TCL I don't think such an effort would be worthwhile, as I assume that only very few people are using these extensions with Postgres.app. Unfortunately we don't have any usage statistics, so I have no idea if my assumption is correct. So we've decided to just release Postgres.app with PostgreSQL 13 without support for these languages.
If you are using PL/Perl or PL/TCL, and think that it's important that we add them back, please let us know!