| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| 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 23:39:55 |
| Message-ID: | FDBA0242-BC54-4025-BFFF-905A9995BBEC@kineticode.com |
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On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
*Shrug*. Just change the name in the docs, then. It's currently "Additional Supplied Modules". Maybe just change that to "Additional Supplied Extensions" or, even better, "Core Extensions"?
Best,
David
> (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.)
How often do you have to back-patch contrib, anyway?
David
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