Re: Contrib/earthdistance missing from cvsweb.

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Page wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
>> Sent: 04 October 2004 17:17
>> To: Marc G. Fournier
>> Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Contrib/earthdistance missing from cvsweb.
>>
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Page wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Marc,
>>>>
>>>> I always seem to get problems checking out the
>> earthdistance contrib
>>>> module from CVS. Tom mentioned in the past that this was
>> because you
>>>> had experimented with it when trying to split the repository.
>>>>
>>>> I can get at it if I checkout pgsql vs. pgsql-server (or
>> vice-versa,
>>>> I forget which), but as this module is also missing from
>> cvsweb, it
>>>> would be good if you could fix it. Please :-)
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, to 'fix it', I'm not sure of the risks,
>> since it causes
>>> some major headaches when i pulled it out in the first place :( If
>>> nothing else, should probably wait until *after* the release, not
>>> middle of beta ...
>>
>> This just a CVS checkout issue. It shouldn't affect the
>> actual CVS files. I think it has been pushed off too long
>> that we should just do it now. How many years must it be broken?
>
> Which reminds me of why I reported it in the first place - I already get
> errors about it being missing. I'm not sure things could get much worse!

If I correctly remember the issue, if I merge earthdistance back into the
main source tree (which is a simple mv operation and cvs update on the
modules file), it will potentially break everyone's currently checked out
CVS source, since the 'paths' will change in the CVS/Root file ...

I'm willing to do it, since all the work I generally do, I do with a fresh
check out ...

Am CC'ng in -hackers, as they will potentially be *the most* affected by
doing this ...

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