Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0
Date
Msg-id 200408171359.43477.lowen@pari.edu
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In response to Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Saturday 14 August 2004 14:27, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > source code ... again, that's for those building from source ... but
> > even for packagers, it would be nice to have a "build/libpq" RPM that
> > only included the client libraries, header files and pgxs, and not
> > all the exra binaries ...

> As a packager, I can tell you that nothing would be easier for packagers
> than just one huge tarball being released every two years.  The more
> smaller tarballs you release, the more likely you're going to have
> dependency problems, which, at least in my world, is the first thing
> you want to avoid when packaging.

Agreed 100%.
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Lamar Owen
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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