Re: moving from contrib to bin

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: moving from contrib to bin
Date: 2014-12-12 15:20:58
Message-ID: 16492.1418397658@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On 12/12/14 8:13 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Wouldn't a make install-server/client targets or something similar
>> actually achieve the same thing? Seems simpler to maintain to me.

> Adding non-standard makefile targets comes with its own set of
> maintenance issues.

It would be of zero value to packagers anyway; certainly so for those
following the Red Hat tradition, in which you tell the package Makefile
to install everything and then what goes into which subpackage is
sorted out in a separate, subsequent step. Possibly Debian or other
packaging infrastructures do it differently, but I doubt that.

Really, if we want to tell packagers that foo is a client program and
bar is a server-side program, the documentation is where to address it.

regards, tom lane

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