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

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bruce Momjian 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...
>
> psql needs the sgml files for help, so none are optional, I think.

Technically, there should be a way of buildling a release distribution
that can build psql without requiring anything but libpq being installed
... its stuff I'm currently looking into ... but not for v7.0 ...