On Thu, 5 May 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:
Actually, if the number of "split files" (whatever their names) increase even further, may I suggest they are moved into a subdir of their own, keeping just the main distribution and the README about the splits in the main dir?
the "main distribution" will just be postgresql-server-<release>.tar.gz ...
postgresql-WTKS.tar.gz (with the kitchen sink) file that contained everything for those that really wanted to download "it all" ...
That would be "postgresql-x.y.z.tar.gz", right? ;-)
Nope, postgresql-x.y.z.tar.gz will just be the core distribution ...the WTKS will be the 'with the kitchen sink' meta distribution and would be in the subdir that you propose above ... in fact, I doubt that the WTKS will even be ready for the next release, as it will involve alot of work on the build system itself, I would think ... the 'cascading configure's could be interesting in itself ...
Bottom line - make it easy for the *newbies*. Those of us who know exactly what we want will know where to look for it (say in a separate subdir). (or we'll just download the whole tarball anyway because that is *way* much more convenient... Speaking for myself there, of course.)
Note that "the whole tar ball" will give you the core server and that is it ... the WTKS is a whole seperate project from what is being planned ...
What is being worked on right now is effectively reducing things down to:
postgresql-server (including libpq) postgresql-<insert add on here>
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