Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

Am Dienstag, 7. Juni 2005 19:53 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> I think it would also be helpful to users if we could create
> subdirectories to organize contrib into categories. This would
> help users and packagers find what they want. These
> directories would be:
> data_types/
> functions/
> utilities/

I think this is out of the question both because these categories are fuzzy
and it would destroy the CVS history. It might be equally effective to
organize the README file along these lines.

> I'll point out that several people (including one of our
> RPM builders) spoke up in favor of the idea of adding ./contrib
> command line options for individual contrib items.

Packagers should simply build all contrib items. No extra options are needed.

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