Re: Splitting distributions (Was: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG / Release)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > I'm creating them right now, broken down as:
>
> > docs -> pgsql/docs
> > test -> pgsql/src/test
> > support -> pgsql/src/{interfaces,bin}
> > base -> pgsql (minus the above)
>
> One gripe on this --- the docs are sort-of optional, and the test stuff
> is certainly optional, but the interfaces and bin directories are *not*
> optional. It'd be a good idea to make sure this is noted on the webpage
> or in the FTP directory's README file...

Already done...see README.dist-split :) As I note in that file, all
chunks have to be downloaded, since I didn't want to differentiate at this
time between what is optional and what isn't. The purpose, for v7.0, was
just to make it 4 smaller tar files then one large one ... for v7.1, I'd
like to work on cleaning up the 'optional' stuff ...