From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: RC3 ... |
Date: | 2001-04-07 02:08:24 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.33.0104062304510.81918-100000@mobile.hub.org |
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > That strikes me as an awfully web-centric view of things. Not everyone
> > > has an always-on high-speed Internet link.
> > >
> > > If you want to make the docs and TODO.detail be a separate chunk of the
> > > split distribution, that's fine with me. But I don't agree with
> > > removing them from the full tarball.
> > >
> > > OTOH, if Marc was only thinking of removing the pre-built docs from the
> > > tarball, I don't object to that. I'm not sure why those weren't
> > > distributed as separate tarballs from the get-go. I just say that the
> > > doc sources are part of the source distribution...
> >
> > But, why? That sounds like a highly DSL-centric view of things *grin* If
> > someone really wants docs, what hurts a second GET ftp call?
>
> A major issue is that we don't regenerate docs for 7.1.1 or later, so
> the 7.1 docs carry for all the 7.1.X releases. That would seem to argue
> for a separate tarball for docs so people don't redownload the docs
> again for 7.1.1.
Okay, unless someone can come up with a really good argument *for* why
docs has to be included as part of the main tar file, I'm going to change
the distributin generating script so that it generates a .src.tar.gz file
seperate from the .doc.tar.gz file, which will make .src.tar.gz ~6Meg
instead of the 8meg we are currently forcing ppl to download ...
Peter E, is there anything part of the configure/make procedure that
*requires* pgsql/doc to be there else it will break? If so, can you
possibly put it as a test "if docs exists, deal with it, else ignore"?
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