On Thu, 5 May 2005, Dave Page wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: 05 May 2005 21:08 To: Robert Treat Cc: Tom Lane; Josh Berkus; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement
in fact, with how it looks like we'll end up extending it over time, there will also be a:
jdbc-8.1.0.tar.gz odbc-8.1.0.tar.gz libpqxx-8.1.0.tar.gz
I don't believe that's a good idea. Speaking from an ODBC pov, not only is the primary distribution for Windows, but the whole project is version independent of PostgreSQL and follows it's own release cycles entirely.
odbc was just an example ... I'm not looking to include anything arbitrarily, as there will have to be some coordination done with the individual developers from at tagging perspective anyway ...
Commenting more broadly on the whole thread, I think that more tarballs is a bad thing. I already get emails (both to webmaster and privately) from people not understanding what to download - more files will only make that worse.
Going this route will eliminate alot of the confusion, and probably result in us not needing the seperate postgresql-<split>-<release>.tar.gz files themselves, since there won't be anything left to put into the side files ...
postgresql-opt would disappear and be replaced by:
plperl.tar.gz
plpython.tar.gz
pltcl.tar.gz
etcJosh has already proposed next step after PLs being the various contrib modules, so we'd have a:
dbsize.tar.gz
btree_gist.tar.gz
etcThe end result wouldn't have enough in the *core* module to warrant a split-dist anymore, since all of what would be left would be what is required for a build ...
Plus, also with what Josh has suggested, we'd also end up with a:
postgresql-WTKS.tar.gz (with the kitchen sink) file that contained everything for those that really wanted to download "it all" ...
So, there would be no confusion for what to download, since it would all be laid out for you ... you want a server with plperl, you download the server and the plperl tar file ... you already have a server, but want to add plpython, you download the plpython tar file ...
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