Re: INSTALL file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: INSTALL file
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Msg-id 20190204020244.GN1881@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: INSTALL file  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:21:03PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I'm not in favor of listing all these versions here.  It's one more
> thing to keep updated.  The version requirements are not outrageous, so
> we can assume that someone with a reasonably up-to-date development
> machine has appropriate versions.

+1.  I have just looked at the patch, and my take is that listing all
the ways to build Postgres directly in the README is just a
duplication of what we already have in the documentation.  So I would
just rip out all that and keep a simple link to the documentation.

> I'm also not convinced that this list is actually complete.  From an
> "empty" start you'd typically need at least zlib and readline on top of
> those.

Yep.

For now I have moved the patch to next CF, waiting on author.
--
Michael

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