Re: A more useful way to split the distribution

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>
> Oh, I definitely like this ... and get rid of the *large* file, which will
> save all the mirrors a good deal of space over time ...
>
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Since people suddenly seem to be suffering from bandwidth concerns I have
> > devised a new distribution split to address this issue.  I propose the
> > following four sub-tarballs:
> >
> > * postgresql-XXX.base.tar.gz    3.3 MB
> >
> > Everything not in one of the ones below.
> >
> > * postgresql-XXX.opt.tar.gz    1.7 MB
> >
> > Everything not needed unless you use one of the following configure
> > options:  --with-CXX --with-tcl --with-perl --with-python --with-java
> > --enable-multibyte --enable-odbc, plus some other not-really-needed
> > things.

As long as there's still the FULL tarball with everything in it available.

Vince.
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