Re: Re: A more useful way to split the distribution

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: A more useful way to split the distribution
Date: 2001-04-08 17:39:19
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.33.0104081438350.81918-100000@mobile.hub.org
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On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > Since people suddenly seem to be suffering from bandwidth concerns I have
> > devised a new distribution split to address this issue. I propose the
> > following four sub-tarballs:
>
> > * postgresql-XXX.base.tar.gz 3.3 MB
> > * postgresql-XXX.opt.tar.gz 1.7 MB
> > * postgresql-XXX.docs.tar.gz 1.9 MB
> > * postgresql-XXX.test.tar.gz 1.0 MB
>
> Since we're going to make a change, I'd like to change the names to
>
> postgresql-base-XXX.tar.gz
>
> etc. to align them with existing practice (cf. RPMs, GCC download). Dots
> should be used for format-identifying extensions.

Go for it ... more a visual change then anything ...

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