On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
Troels Arvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:35:57 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:Frankly, I'd suggest dropping the splits. Thoughts?
I also found the split sources + a non-split sources version to be confusing. As you, I think that splitting should be dropped.
Perhaps the confusion issue could be addressed by keeping the split sources in a separate subdirectory:
pub/source/v.8.0.1/ postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2 postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5 postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz.md5 split-tarballs/ postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2 postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5 etc...
That sounds like a reasonable compromise ... I could do that right away, if nobody is in disagreement ... ?
I suspect the demand for the split tarballs is mighty low nowaways, but it's probably not zero yet.
Considering that every new FreeBSD install uses them exclusively, I don't expect it to drop to zero in the near future ..
Also: I notice that the README file that's supposed to tell people about the split-tarball scheme is not present in any of the recent-version subdirectories, so it's no wonder that they are confused.
Actually, its never been ... just checked, its in the root directory ... but, with that in mind, I've added putting a copy in there to the release script ...
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