Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> > 
> > > Well, it is a nice test template for people who aren't shell script
> > > experts, and I have been in the habit of pushing stuff I use into /tools
> > > so it is available for others.
> > 
> > I know and I'm not happy about it.  The PostgreSQL source tree isn't a
> > repository of everyone's favorite shell scripts.  There's an official
> > method to build and test a PostgreSQL installation.  If that is flawed or
> > incomplete, then let's talk about it.  But everyone pushing out their own
> > little test methodology without further consideration is not going to help
> > this discussion.
> 
> I put stuff in /tools so if something happens to me, you guys can keep
> going.  Do I have to be clearer that that?  I have RELEASE_CHANGES,
> which Tom used for 7.3.X releases, pgindent, stuff for finding
> missing/extraneous includes, static requirements, stuff like that.
> 
> Unless you can find someone else who agrees with you, it stays.

Peter is coming off awfully paternalistic here.  I'd rather have a few 
extra scripts to look through to find what I need when I'm trying to 
figure out something than to have a tool that only the hackers know exists 
and I can only get by asking nicely to see the pretty code.

While no one wants to see a contrib or tool directory of a hundred megs, 
lots of little example files and testing scripts can be nice for nothing 
else other than the examples they provide.  I learned a lot when I first 
started using pgsql from the things in the contrib directory.