Re: Re: Ready to release?

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Just a thought, but putting PDF versions online might be much much more
> > friendly to those downloading ... the only one that *truly* needs to be in
> > the distribution is the html stuff, the rest should be made available
> > through the WWW, for those that want ... not everyone has a postscript
> > printer, so downloading postscript files tend to sound like more work then
> > should be required ... *shrug*
> 
> Perhaps not everyone would want the html version, either.  Maybe we
> ought to think about dividing the download into "sources" and then
> several alternative forms of "docs":
> 
>     postgres-7.1-src.tar.gz
>     postgres-7.1-docs-html.tar.gz
>     postgres-7.1-docs-ps.tar.gz
>     postgres-7.1-docs-pdf.tar.gz
> 
> That way everyone can pick the format(s) they want, and not waste time
> downloading what they don't want.

Thath sounds good also ... :)