Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:21:46PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> Why would it destroy the history? Its easy enough to move the files to a
> subdirectory without losing any history ... hell, we did it when we moved
> JDBC/ODBC out of core, the history was maintained ...

Can't do that, because if you do the files will disappear in (say) 7.4
releases, and we don't want that, do we?

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