On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> We've been calling it "contrib" for a dozen years, so that name is
> pretty well baked in by now. IMO renaming it is pointless and will
> accomplish little beyond creating confusion and making back-patches
> harder.
*Shrug*. Just change the name in the docs, then. It's currently "Additional Supplied Modules". Maybe just change that
to"Additional Supplied Extensions" or, even better, "Core Extensions"?
Best,
David
> (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
> all automagically better. I have enough back-patching experience with
> git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
> feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
> Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
> cope with.)
How often do you have to back-patch contrib, anyway?
David
