RE: Splitting distributions (Was: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG / Release)

As usual when replying from here, replies prefixed with PM:

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Peter Mount
Enterprise Support
Maidstone Borough Council
Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy(at)hub(dot)org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 8:33 PM
To: Michael Meskes
Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker
Subject: Splitting distributions (Was: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG / Release)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Michael Meskes wrote:

> When will we release 7.0? I just checked and found that I'm way behind
my
> schedule. The parser is in sync, but there are quite some open bugs.
So
> hopefully there is either enough time left or someone who would like
to
> spend some time on fixing bugs. :-)

April 1st is what I announced, but I'll be shocked if that actually
happens :) You should have loads of time ...

As far as I'm concerned, stuff like ECPG and JDBC and ODBC are
changeable
pretty much up to the release date ... they are generally touched, and
modified by only one person ...

PM: To be honest, I've been doing it this way at least since 6.5 :-)
Actually, I think that as long as it doesn't change the core (ie: JDBC
doesn't use any code outside of the src/interfaces/jdbc directory) then
it doesn't hurt. That doesn't mean I don't try to meet the beta deadline
however :-)

One of the things I'd like to look at for 7.1 is start to split off the
distributions ... we're up to a 7meg distribution and growing ...

We should be able to do a pgsql-docs.tar.gz and pgsql-src.tar.gz at the
very least ... putting 'doc' in a seperate tar file would reduce the
size
by ~3meg:

total 3024
-rw-r--r-- 1 scrappy wheel 2969424 Feb 22 15:27 doc.tar.gz

Actually, is there a reason we can't do this now? I can change the 'tar
build' system so that we have split systems that way ... this would at
least safe testers from downloading 3meg worth of tar file that most
likely won't get touched often ...

PM: I'm surprised we haven't done it earlier.

I'm going to do this tonight, put it up and see what ppl thing ... if
nothing else, it makes it easier for ppl to download smaller chunks ...

PM: Agreed.