From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199910092021.QAA14345@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Next release is 7.0(?)
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	from Vince Vielhaber at "Oct 9, 1999 09:03:09 am"
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
CC: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
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> On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Because the next release is going to probably be 7.0, if people have
> > backward compatability library code that they have been dying to remove,
> > this is the time for it.
> > 
> > I don't recommend removing backward compatability with 6.4 or 6.5
> > releases, but if you have some code that is hanging around just to be
> > compatible with 6.1 or earlier, I think it can be removed now.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Then perhaps we can also overhaul the installation.  I installed about 
> 5 times this past week and have it down to 4 or 5 steps (not including
> regression testing).

Great.  That certainly needs a cleanup.  My ideal would be to have a
list of short instructions, and then have footnotes people would go to
when they had a problem with a certain item.  Not sure how to do that in
sgml.

If we did it in html, they could click on something when they had a
problem, but html instructions are hard if you don't have a browser.


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