On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:39 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zZWYgxaBpbcOhbmVr?= <josef.sima...@gmail.com> writes: > > Another solution would be to merge both README files together and make > > separate section for development/git based codebase. > > There's a lot to be said for that approach: make it simpler, not > more complicated.
Yeah. And what about just getting rid of the INSTALL file altogether? I think that, in 2022, a lot of people are likely to use git to obtain the source code rather than obtain a tarball. And regardless of what method they use to get the source code, they don't really need there to be a text file in the directory with installation instructions; a URL is just fine. There was a time when you couldn't count on people to have a web browser conveniently available, either because that whole world wide web thing hadn't really caught on yet, or because they didn't even have an always-on Internet connection. In that world, an INSTALL file in the tarball makes a lot of sense. But these delays, the number of people who are still obtaining PostgreSQL via UUCP-over-modem-relay has got to be ... relatively limited. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
