Re: A more useful way to split the distribution

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.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/