Re: beta1 packaged

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: beta1 packaged
Date: 2002-09-05 22:14:07
Message-ID: 20020905191327.L24945-100000@hub.org
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0On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, so if base isn't compilable, then what is it good for? I don't see
> > any add-on packages that would make it usable.
>
> AFAIR, the only reason for having the split packaging is to accommodate
> people who are downloading across flaky connections --- less to retry if
> your connection drops. You still have to download all the data if you
> want to have a useful package, no?

Correct ... even on high speed connections, I've had problems in the past
getting large files to download, so it makes it easier if you only have to
retry a part, instead of hte whole thing ...

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