Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>> I don't think we should include everything, and I belive that
>> "collapse" is debatable.  The important part is how the distro itself
>> is managed.  One can easily create a "core" distribution which
>> includes PL/Java, ODBC, JDBC, etc.  All of them don't have to reside
>> in the same CVS tree, but they can be built and released together.  I
>> know because I've done it... and it's not that difficult.  The hard
>> part is actually deciding what to include and what not to.
>
>
> And people already do this...
>
> The Win32 installer
> mammothpostgresql.org (which is 100% FOSS btw)
> Ubuntu :)
>
> So why put the load on the Core distro?

Agreed ... but, maybe on our FTP/download pages, we should add a link for 
'Distributions', that would include mammothpostgresql.org and Ubuntu?  so 
that ppl knew about them?  We do it for support related stuff ...

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