On Saturday 23 June 2007 05:56, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:12:06PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >> Magnus Hagander wrote: > >>> Is this script in CVS somewhere? I know it's not in the main backend > >>> repo. > >> > >> Most of what these scripts have done in the past has been systematized > >> and folded into the "make dist" target in the mean time, and AFAICT, we > >> could integrate the documentation preparation as well, now that it > >> works automatically in a reliable fashion. That would reduce the > >> answer to the original question to something like > >> > >> ./configure > >> make dist[check] > > > > If we can do that, that makes it even better. But is it something we can > > reasonably backpatch? Otherwise we still need both documentation and > > scripts to deal with back branches. > > Marc, how's this coming? We still need this documented somewhere, if > it's not being put into CVS. And documenting what it is could be a good > starting point for somebody else to put it into the Makefile, if you > don't have the time to work on that part yourself. > > But not having it documented *or* in the Makefile just sucks... >
And while we're talking about things that suck wrt packaging, I noticed it's now been over a year since I first complained about the stable snapshots in our ftp directory being outdated (http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/stable_snapshot/), if no one is going to fix that, can we remove them? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
