Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Actually, the comparison is apt. There's a reason people suggest > using your distribution's PHP or Zope or what-have-you packages, > rather than installing from source: an inexperienced user with these > packages could easily spend several days trying to figure out all the > bits to install. Obviously, such people are new users, and a > learning curve is expected. But given recent hand-wringing about the > relative "mind-share" of Postgres &c., it seems perverse to make a > new user have to find out (probably by asking on a mailing list) that > basic stuff like client libraries are a whole separate package, which > needs to be dealt with separately. It _would_ be nice, though, to be > able to get just the client stuff for sure. And maybe the separation > is worth it; I just want to be sure that people know the effect on > users.
I have already provide Marc with a script needed to make an interfaces-only tarball. I was about 1/10th the size of the full tarball. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
