Okay, I'm blind, but I thought that we were doing a 6.5 vs 7.0 docs tree
also ::( but I can't find it anywhere ...
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > > btw, the 7.0 release tarball will need to be built with wget or
> > > something similar picking up the current copies of docs from the
> > > Postgres web site. Is that OK? If so, I'll stay away from committing
> > > them to CVS and will deep-six the ones that are there...
> > Okay, what should I be 'wget'ng? And where would you like it to go to?
> > I just set things up to pull:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/backend
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/chinese
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/programmer
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/tutorial
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/user
> > And am figuring on putting them into:
> > postgresql-<version>/docs/{admin,backend,chinese,postgres,programmer,etc}
> > Is there some other place you would like them put, or something else I
> > should be including?
>
> We should be pulling them from a version-specific place; my
> recollection is that we have set up
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.0/ for this (and that a .../6.5 also
> exists).
>
> The places you list above will likely hold the snapshot version of the
> same files.
>
> I would suggest picking up the .tar.gz and .ps.gz files from .../7.0,
> rather than individual files, since the doc/ Makefile assumes that
> those exist for purposes of unpacking/installing into some place
> *other* than the local Postgres distribution tree. And I won't have
> time to change the Makefile to do something else by May 1. (May 5 --
> all things are possible ;)
>
> - Thomas
>
> btw, we've got several threads going on core which should be on
> hackers. This is one of them...
>
> --
> Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
> South Pasadena, California
>
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