Re: Client-only Meson Build From Sources

2025-10-22 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2025-10-21 12:02:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Benjamin Leff writes: > >> I believe the prevailing opinion was that the amount > >> of time saved by not building all of PG didn't justify the maintenance > >> effort to keep the build scripts working for that case > > > IMO, it’s not just abo

Re: Client-only Meson Build From Sources

2025-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Benjamin Leff writes: >> I believe the prevailing opinion was that the amount >> of time saved by not building all of PG didn't justify the maintenance >> effort to keep the build scripts working for that case > IMO, it’s not just about time. For bare bones package managers when there’s > no need

Re: Client-only Meson Build From Sources

2025-10-21 Thread Benjamin Leff
> I believe the prevailing opinion was that the amount of time saved by not building all of PG didn't justify the maintenance effort to keep the build scripts working for that case IMO, it’s not just about time. For bare bones package managers when there’s no need to build the server, this saves a

Re: Client-only Meson Build From Sources

2025-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On 20.10.25 22:43, Benjamin Leff wrote: >> Are there any plans to support a client-only (no server) build in meson? > I'm not aware of such plans. But that doesn't mean somebody couldn't > propose one. Years ago we had support for client-only builds on at least some

Re: Client-only Meson Build From Sources

2025-10-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 20.10.25 22:43, Benjamin Leff wrote: Are there any plans to support a client-only (no server) build in meson? I'm not aware of such plans. But that doesn't mean somebody couldn't propose one.