Re: Old interfaces directory in CVS tree?

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:46:15AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>>> A libpqxx user just informed me that the anonymous CVS repository at
>>>> anoncvs.postgresql.org still contained a 2002 version of libpqxx in the
>>>> interfaces directory. I checked it out and otherwise it seems to be the
>>>> current source tree--at least I found an 8.1 version number somewhere.
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>>> you informant probably needs to use the -P option for cvs checkout.
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>> Doesn't make a difference. Besides, the outdated source is there even on
>> a fresh checkout.
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> Oh, the top level interfaces directory. I misunderstood. Why is anybody
> checking that out at all? Are we keeping it for historical purposes?

Yes, since past releases did include it, so if we check out a previous
release, it needs to be able to pull those files as well ...

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