| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(at)pgug(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: INSTALL file |
| Date: | 2018-10-28 19:39:08 |
| Message-ID: | 2a88d921-f1c8-6b82-ba7f-e58f14cdcf68@2ndQuadrant.com |
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On 10/28/2018 08:13 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> while working with Google Code-In students, there is one task: "clone
> PostgreSQL from git repository, and build from source".
>
> This brought up an interesting problem: the README refers to an
> "INSTALL" file, which is present in packages, but not in the source
> repo. This is very confusing for beginners, and should be avoided.
>
> There are a couple options to fix this:
>
> 1. Update the README, and remove the "INSTALL" reference
> 2. Create a permanent INSTALL file, and possibly overwrite it during
> packaging
> 3. Add different INSTALL files, based on the platform (Linux, BSD,
> Windows, Source)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
See README.git
cheers
andrew
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