On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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?
Hrmmm, good point that I hadn't thought of ... unless, of course, we
back-patch the build changes ...
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