From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200410041712.i94HCJo00266@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Contrib/earthdistance missing from cvsweb.
In-Reply-To: <20041004140850.Y10913@ganymede.hub.org>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> 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 ...
> >
> > This whole thing has been a mess that has been dragging on for too long.
> > I suggest that after the release we make a clean break and put things
> > back the way they were before (that is, one single pgsql module).
> 
> Agreed, but Bruce is calling for this *during* beta, which I'm not 
> comfortable with ... if anyone else wants to agree with Bruce, I'll do it, 
> as I know it won't affect me ...
> 

Seems we have 100% agreement so far.  Beta is a better time to require a
cvs fresh checkout than during development.

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