From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: ci: Build standalone INSTALL file |
Date: | 2023-12-21 09:17:57 |
Message-ID: | 20231221091757.difddgbds2mng25r@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2023-12-21 08:39:26 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> >> We fairly regularly have commits breaking the generation of INSTALL. IIRC we
> >> recently discussed building it locally unconditionally, but I couldn't
> >> immediately find that discussion. Until then, I think we should at least
> >> build it in CI so that cfbot can warn.
> >
> > I thought the plan was to get rid of that file, in pursuit of making
> > our distribution tarballs be more or less pure git pulls. Instead of
> > expending more effort on it, why not just push that project forward?
> > (IIRC, what we intended to do instead was to modify the top-level
> > README to point at the HTML install directions on the web.)
Ah, right. I don't really care what solution we go for, just that as long as
we have INSTALL, we should make sure we don't regularly break it... Both
Michael and I have in the last couple weeks.
> Hmm. It depends on if the next release should include it or not, but
> let me add my +1 for replacing it with a simple redirect.
Are you going to submit a patch for that bit?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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