On 28.10.18 20:39, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 10/28/2018 08:13 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
Hello,
while working with Google Code-In students, there is one task: "clone
PostgreSQL from git repository, and build from source".
This brought up an interesting problem: the README refers to an
"INSTALL" file, which is present in packages, but not in the source
repo. This is very confusing for beginners, and should be avoided.
There are a couple options to fix this:
1. Update the README, and remove the "INSTALL" reference
2. Create a permanent INSTALL file, and possibly overwrite it during
packaging
3. Add different INSTALL files, based on the platform (Linux, BSD,
Windows, Source)
Regards,
See README.git
That is not the first file people looking at. Especially not people
looking at the GitHub copy:
https://github.com/postgres/postgres
I understand that there is documentation, but for the casual developer
looking at this, it seems broken.
Regards,
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project
