On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut
> > Sent: Monday, 19 November 2001 10:40 PM
> > To: Marc G. Fournier
> > Cc: Tom Lane; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development; Thomas Lockhart
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta3
> >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier writes:
> >
> > > Okay, how do we want to address/fix/test this?
> >
> > Assuming that we don't want to make sweeping changes to the overall
> > procedure, I suggest this:
> >
> > 1. The postgres.tar.gz and man.tar.gz documentation tarballs required for
> > a release used to be at ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/doc/. The new
> > file system location of this directory needs to be determined.
> >
> > 2. Some postgres.tar.gz and man.tar.gz files need to be put there.
>
> Just a thought: Doesn't everyone have bzip2 these days? Many large
> projects come bz2-only even these days. Is there a good reason to stick
> with the extra-large tar.gz format?
Cause not everyone has bzip2 ... Solaris comes with gzip, doesn't come
with bzip ... not sure how many other OS, but even FreeBSD requiresyou to
compile bzip from ports, it isn't part of hte operating system ...