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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: v7.1 beta 1 ...packaged, finally ... 
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Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Another thing we should think about is to not tar.gz the documentation
> files.  That way we could create useful incremental diffs between releases
> later on.  Any comments here?

I've never figured out why we do that.  Since the thing is going to be
inside a tarball anyway, there's no possible savings from distributing
the built doco that way, rather than as ordinary files.

			regards, tom lane