Re: Re: RC3 ...

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, lamar.owen@wgcr.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-07T01:25:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > That strikes me as an awfully web-centric view of things.  Not everyone
> > has an always-on high-speed Internet link.
> >
> > If you want to make the docs and TODO.detail be a separate chunk of the
> > split distribution, that's fine with me.  But I don't agree with
> > removing them from the full tarball.
> >
> > OTOH, if Marc was only thinking of removing the pre-built docs from the
> > tarball, I don't object to that.  I'm not sure why those weren't
> > distributed as separate tarballs from the get-go.  I just say that the
> > doc sources are part of the source distribution...
> 
> But, why?  That sounds like a highly DSL-centric view of things *grin*  If
> someone really wants docs, what hurts a second GET ftp call?

A major issue is that we don't regenerate docs for 7.1.1 or later, so
the 7.1 docs carry for all the 7.1.X releases.  That would seem to argue
for a separate tarball for docs so people don't redownload the docs
again for 7.1.1.

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