Re: Wrong link not pointing to the release tarball

As I said this is a maven artifact. We actually don't expect anyone to
build from a tarball.

The recommended way to build is to pull from github. However I'm sensing
that you have a requirement to build from a tarball?

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 22 January 2016 at 08:26, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:

> On Friday 22 of January 2016 14:20:20 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > On Friday 22 of January 2016 07:32:50 Dave Cramer wrote:
> > > This is a standard maven artifact. Jar files can be opened using zip
> tools.
> > > If it is not usable in that state we can change it back although it
> adds an
> > > additional step
> >
> > Ah, I thought that was not intentional.
> >
> > Tarballs are the standard for releases of wast majority of FOSS projects
> > -- as the 'ustar' format is defined by POSIX (and is _really_ simple,
> > compared to zip) it is available probably everywhere. Fore example,
> > PostgreSQL and Maven themselves are distributed in tarballs.
> >
> > As I write you from GNU/Linux, I definitely prefer .tar.gz, but OTOH,
> this
> > is probably not burning if nobody else cares -- I'm just surprised.
> > I believe we are able to deal with jar/zip files.
>
> Actually, I'm afraid that the content of the zip file is not
> self-standing .. but I'm not sure.
>
> For example, there is the full 'org/postgresql/..' file hierarchy, which
> does not match what is in git. And also the pom.xml files are missing.
>
> Is that expected? What is the expected way to build from the [1] release
> zip file?
>
> [1] https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4.1207-sources.jar
>
> Pavel
>
>