Re: Re: INSTALL file

Hi Andreas,

On 2/15/19 11:59 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 14/02/2019 20:13, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2019-02-04 11:02:44 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> +1.  I have just looked at the patch, and my take is that listing all
>>> the ways to build Postgres directly in the README is just a
>>> duplication of what we already have in the documentation.  So I would
>>> just rip out all that and keep a simple link to the documentation.
>>
>> Well, the documentation cannot be built without the dependencies, and
>> not everyone has convenient internet access.  I'm not sure what the
>> solution to that is, but somehow consolidating that information in the,
>> by now pretty standardized, location of INSTALL seems pretty reasonable
>> to me.
> 
> (I suppose you meant README here.  The information is already in INSTALL.)
> 
> But the proposed additions don't actually mention the required
> dependencies to build the documentation, so it wouldn't even achieve
> that goal.
> 
> And if you don't have internet access, how did you get the git checkout?
> 
> The use case here seems pretty narrow.

Any thoughts on Peter and Andres' comments?

Regards,
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-David
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