Re: INSTALL file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: INSTALL file
Date
Msg-id 20190214191316.57odgt65rjyv7gsc@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: INSTALL file  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: INSTALL file  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Hi,

On 2019-02-04 11:02:44 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> +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.

Well, the documentation cannot be built without the dependencies, and
not everyone has convenient internet access.  I'm not sure what the
solution to that is, but somehow consolidating that information in the,
by now pretty standardized, location of INSTALL seems pretty reasonable
to me.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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