Re: Improving prep_buildtree used in VPATH builds

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>> Could this perhaps be made clearer on the page, perhaps with an example?
>>> It confused me recently too.
>>>
>>> Can you suggest something more specific?
>>>
>>> Well, it could say something like:
>>>
>>> The Message-ID can be found in the headers of the relevant email to the
>>> pgsql-hackers mailing list, and also in the mailing list archives at
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org. It looks something like this (the format
>>> varies somewhat depending on the sender's Mail User Agent):
>>> AANLkTinw0HL+jQmrtwXC9Y2tqhcfHFgFekxyyfYGvQrB@mail.gmail.com
>>>
>>> That would certainly have given me, and I suspect Gurjeet, enough clue.
>>
>> Where on the page would you suggest that we put that text?
>
> Following "Enter your comments below. If you wish your comment to reference
> a message from the mailing list archives, enter the message ID into the
> space provided."

Done.

> Another way to handle this might be to extract it from an http URL if given
> one.

I'm going to leave this idea for another day, thought it's not a bad
one if someone feels motivated to write the code.

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Robert Haas
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