Re: contrib features during beta period

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> -- earthdistance, for instance, which has been with us for a long time.
>>
>> Actually, that seems to have just disappeared completely. What the heck?
>> Marc, you're not physically removing stuff from CVS when you move it to
>> gborg, are you?

> I think Marc put earthdistance in a separate CVS module, i.e. separate
> from pgsql-server but included in the pgsql meta-module.

Hmm, you're right. It appears that that setup does not actually work
very well. I tried rm -rf contrib/earthdistance, after which I find
that "cvs update" does not bring back the earthdistance subdirectory;
it seems I have to do a full checkout to get back in sync. I suppose
this is a CVS bug. And it's one that worries me a lot more than the
annoyance that cvsweb won't show a merged view. I wonder whether cvs
update would even notice changes inside the earthdistance module?

regards, tom lane