| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: moving from contrib to bin |
| Date: | 2014-12-12 16:42:57 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZJPPmxvdiJkcHZ08qtQBYeBcfQRP3rgYUc48XMb-LrTA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> The benefit of moving relevant stuff is that it'll actually be installed
> by default when installing postgres on many platforms. That's currently
> often not the case. The contrib umbrella, as used by many other
> projects, actually justifies not doing so.
Agreed. See my other response for my thoughts on that topic.
>> It will make back-patching harder
>
> I think the amount of effort a simple renamed directory which wholly
> contains a binary creates is acceptable. Just use patch -p4 instead of
> patch -p1...
That is fine if you are manually applying a patch that touches only
that directory, but if the patch also touches other stuff then it's
not as simple. And I don't know how well git cherry-pick will follow
the moves.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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