Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk> writes:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:35:57 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Frankly, I'd suggest dropping the splits. Thoughts?
> I also found the split sources + a non-split sources version to be
> confusing. As you, I think that splitting should be dropped.
Perhaps the confusion issue could be addressed by keeping the split
sources in a separate subdirectory:
pub/source/v.8.0.1/ postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2 postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5 postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz
postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz.md5 split-tarballs/ postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2
postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5 etc...
I suspect the demand for the split tarballs is mighty low nowaways,
but it's probably not zero yet.
Also: I notice that the README file that's supposed to tell people about
the split-tarball scheme is not present in any of the recent-version
subdirectories, so it's no wonder that they are confused.
regards, tom lane