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Re: About the partial tarballs

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Marko Karppinen <marko@karppinen.fi>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-12T04:25:55Z
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> > Even if they weren't useful for anything else, I think there's value in the
> > developers having to consider what is optional and what is not. This need
> > for constant review probably reduces the chance of bloat, over time even
> > in the full tarball.
>
> How about dropping the partial tarballs and using the space savings to
> distribute a .tar.bz2 archive as well.

We already do ... started with beta1 of 7.4 ...