Re: INSTALL file

2019-04-06 Thread David Steele
On 4/6/19 3:18 AM, Andres Freund wrote: Given nothing happened since then I think we ought to mark this as returned with feedback? Will do so tomorrow. Agreed, marked as Returned with Feedback. Regards, -- -David da...@pgmasters.net

Re: INSTALL file

2019-04-05 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2019-03-21 22:06:36 +0400, David Steele wrote: > On 2/15/19 11:59 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 14/02/2019 20:13, Andres Freund wrote: > > > On 2019-02-04 11:02:44 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > > > +1. I have just looked at the patch, and my take is that listing all > > > > the wa

Re: Re: INSTALL file

2019-03-21 Thread David Steele
Hi Andreas, On 2/15/19 11:59 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 14/02/2019 20:13, Andres Freund wrote: On 2019-02-04 11:02:44 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: +1. I have just looked at the patch, and my take is that listing all the ways to build Postgres directly in the README is just a duplication

Re: INSTALL file

2019-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 14/02/2019 20:13, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2019-02-04 11:02:44 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: >> +1. I have just looked at the patch, and my take is that listing all >> the ways to build Postgres directly in the README is just a >> duplication of what we already have in the documentation. So I

Re: INSTALL file

2019-02-14 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2019-02-04 11:02:44 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > +1. I have just looked at the patch, and my take is that listing all > the ways to build Postgres directly in the README is just a > duplication of what we already have in the documentation. So I would > just rip out all that and keep a

Re: INSTALL file

2019-02-03 Thread Michael Paquier
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:21:03PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I'm not in favor of listing all these versions here. It's one more > thing to keep updated. The version requirements are not outrageous, so > we can assume that someone with a reasonably up-to-date development > machine has appro

Re: INSTALL file

2019-01-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 03/11/2018 00:14, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > GNU make, version 3.8 or newer > ISO/ANSI C compilar (at least C99-compliant) > Flex 2.5.31 or later, and Bison 1.875 or later (for building from git) > Perl 5.8.3 (for building from git) I'm not in favor of listing all these versions here. It

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-03 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 03.11.18 18:06, Stephen Frost wrote: Greetings, * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: On 02.11.18 01:38, Stephen Frost wrote: * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: How about the attached one? Picked up your draft, and cleaned it up a bit. (unsurprisingly) this is looki

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: > On 02.11.18 01:38, Stephen Frost wrote: > >* Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: > >>How about the attached one? Picked up your draft, and cleaned it up a bit. > >(unsurprisingly) this is looking pretty good to me. > > > >A few

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-02 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 06:47:19AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > As for what's in the README on the master branch, I was saying that it > *should* point to the development documentation, since that should be > current with whatever is actually in the git repo (or only a day behind > or such). Defi

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-02 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 02.11.18 01:38, Stephen Frost wrote: Greetings, * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: How about the attached one? Picked up your draft, and cleaned it up a bit. (unsurprisingly) this is looking pretty good to me. A few additional notes: Incorporated. See the attached. If that

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-02 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Michael Paquier (mich...@paquier.xyz) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:42:34PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > If we go down this route, the master branch should probably link to the > > regularly built devel documentation, so that if/when we do make such a > > change, we'll point

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:42:34PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > If we go down this route, the master branch should probably link to the > regularly built devel documentation, so that if/when we do make such a > change, we'll point people at the updated documentation too. I don't know how others f

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Michael Paquier (mich...@paquier.xyz) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 01:41:33PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I'm not sure that I'm really following this, because we aren't pointing > > to the development documentation, just the 'current' documentation, and > > that seems fine, an

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: > How about the attached one? Picked up your draft, and cleaned it up a bit. (unsurprisingly) this is looking pretty good to me. A few additional notes: > PostgreSQL Database Management System > = >

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 01:41:33PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > I'm not sure that I'm really following this, because we aren't pointing > to the development documentation, just the 'current' documentation, and > that seems fine, and there's links on that page to the other versions of > the page fo

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 01.11.18 18:41, Stephen Frost wrote: Greetings, * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: On 01.11.18 07:26, Michael Paquier wrote: It includes links to the website, as well as the short version of the installation instructions. +The installation instructions are listed on the websit

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: > On 01.11.18 07:26, Michael Paquier wrote: > >>It includes links to the website, as well as the short version of the > >>installation instructions. > >+The installation instructions are listed on the website: > >+ > >+https://www.postgres

Re: INSTALL file

2018-11-01 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 01.11.18 07:26, Michael Paquier wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 01:32:09AM +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: Picking up on this idea, attached is a first draft for changing the README. Why don't you add it to the upcoming commit fest? It would be good to get some traction with a formal r

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-31 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 01:32:09AM +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > Picking up on this idea, attached is a first draft for changing the > README. Why don't you add it to the upcoming commit fest? It would be good to get some traction with a formal review. > It includes links to the websit

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-31 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 01.11.18 01:29, Michael Paquier wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:30:40AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: Agreed, we should really improve the README by merging the README.git into it and make the project, as a whole, more accessible to new developers. +1. I think as well that this approach wou

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-31 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2018-11-01 09:29:37 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:30:40AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Agreed, we should really improve the README by merging the README.git > > into it and make the project, as a whole, more accessible to new > > developers. > > +1. I think

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-31 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:30:40AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Agreed, we should really improve the README by merging the README.git > into it and make the project, as a whole, more accessible to new > developers. +1. I think as well that this approach would be a good thing. -- Michael signat

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-31 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum (a...@pgug.de) wrote: > On 30.10.18 11:49, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >On 10/30/2018 06:14 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > >>On 30.10.18 04:11, Michael Paquier wrote: > >>>FWIW, I think that people depend too much on github and what github > >>>thinks projects should do

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-30 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 30.10.18 11:49, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 10/30/2018 06:14 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: On 30.10.18 04:11, Michael Paquier wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: That is not the first file people looking at. Especially not people looking at t

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 10/30/2018 06:14 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: On 30.10.18 04:11, Michael Paquier wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: That is not the first file people looking at. Especially not people looking at the GitHub copy: https://github.com/postg

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-30 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
On 30.10.18 04:11, Michael Paquier wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: 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

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-29 Thread Komяpa
> > > 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. > > FWIW, I think that people

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-29 Thread Michael Paquier
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > 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

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-29 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
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

Re: INSTALL file

2018-10-28 Thread Andrew Dunstan
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