| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests |
| Date: | 2010-11-10 23:17:52 |
| Message-ID: | 12741.1289431072@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> We already use some contrib stuff in the regression tests. (It really is time we stopped calling it contrib.)
> Call them "core extensions". Works well considering Dimitri's work, which explicitly makes them extensions. So maybe change the directory name to "extensions" or "ext"?
We've been calling it "contrib" for a dozen years, so that name is
pretty well baked in by now. IMO renaming it is pointless and will
accomplish little beyond creating confusion and making back-patches
harder. (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
all automagically better. I have enough back-patching experience with
git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
cope with.)
regards, tom lane
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