Re: Re: A more useful way to split the distribution

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > Since people suddenly seem to be suffering from bandwidth concerns I have
> > devised a new distribution split to address this issue.  I propose the
> > following four sub-tarballs:
>
> > * postgresql-XXX.base.tar.gz	3.3 MB
> > * postgresql-XXX.opt.tar.gz	1.7 MB
> > * postgresql-XXX.docs.tar.gz	1.9 MB
> > * postgresql-XXX.test.tar.gz	1.0 MB
>
> Since we're going to make a change, I'd like to change the names to
>
> postgresql-base-XXX.tar.gz
>
> etc. to align them with existing practice (cf. RPMs, GCC download).  Dots
> should be used for format-identifying extensions.

Go for it ... more a visual change then anything ...