Re: INSTALL file

On 28.10.18 20:39, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 10/28/2018 08:13 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>  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,
>>
>>
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> See README.git

That is not the first file people looking at. Especially not people
looking at the GitHub copy:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres

I understand that there is documentation, but for the casual developer
looking at this, it seems broken.

Regards,

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project