Re: Re: RC3 ...

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> >> At 2Meg, is there a reason why we include any of the docs as part of the
> >> standard tar ball?  It shouldn't be required to compile, so should be able
> >> to be left out of the main tar ball and downloaded seperately as required
> >> .. thereby shrinking the distribution to <6Meg from its current 8 ...
>
> > Can we drop TODO.detail from the tarball too?  No need to include that,
> > I think.  The web site has nice links to it now.  Uncompressed it is
> > 1.314 megs.
>
> 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?