Re: A more useful way to split the distribution

this only represents since 8:30am this morning ...

/source/v7.0.3/postgresql-7.0.3.support.tar.gz => 9
/source/v7.0.3/postgresql-7.0.3.test.tar.gz => 3
/source/v7.0.3/postgresql-7.0.3.docs.tar.gz => 10
/source/v7.0.3/postgresql-7.0.3.tar.gz => 22
/source/v7.0.3/postgresql-7.0.3.base.tar.gz => 9

on a side note, we almost have as many downloads of psqlodbc in that time
period:

/odbc/psqlodbc_home.html => 15
/odbc/versions/psqlodbc-07_01_0002.zip => 4
/odbc/versions/psqlodbc-07_01_0003.zip => 4
/odbc/versions/psqlodbc-07_01_0004.zip => 18

so it isn't a "fictitous crowd" that is going with the smaller chunks ...
its about 30% on a very small sample ...

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Christopher Sawtell writes:
>
> > For me and I expect many other folk on the edge of civilization it is a
> > total PITA to have to fiddle around and download many separate tarball
> > files. What I want is to be able to start a d/l going and then come back
> > when it's finished and know that I have _everything_ I actually need to
> > have a working and documented product in one shot.
>
> Right.  The only reason for splitting the distribution is to cater to the
> fictitious crowd with "bandwidth problems" or those that explicitly know
> that they don't need the rest.  There will still be a canonical full
> tarball with everything, or at least I will not put my name to something
> that abolishes it.  In fact, I didn't like the idea of the split tarballs
> in the first place, I'm merely changing the split to something more
> useful.
>
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