Re: A more useful way to split the distribution - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/