| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Include files for SPI are not installed |
| Date: | 2001-02-07 00:50:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200102070050.TAA24580@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I agree with Karel on this --- it's difficult to visualize doing useful
> SPI work without a source tree at hand, and it also seems unlikely that
> SPI authors would get along for long with *only* those header files
> needed to pull in spi.h. So I think it's pretty pointless to add just
> those header files.
>
> What would make more sense is for the standard install to install only
> those headers needed for *client side* programming, and then to have
> an optional install target that installs the whole darn src/include
> tree. (Or in RPM terms, a client-devel RPM and a separate server-devel
> RPM that adds the rest of src/include.) Anything in between is
> guaranteed to be the wrong set of files.
Agreed. I hesitate to copy all those *.h files when few people use them.
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