[postgis-devel] Separate regress package

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-devel-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of strk at refractions.net
> Sent: 14 December 2005 15:28
> To: postgis-devel at postgis.refractions.net
> Cc: Paul Ramsey
> Subject: [postgis-devel] Separate regress package
> 
> Starting from version 1.1.0 PostGIS will be released in
> two separate packages:
> 
> 	postgis-VERSION.tar.gz
> 	postgis-regress-VERSION.tar.gz
> 
> This is to reduce package size.
> 
> Regress package is still bound to a single release to simplify
> things, but this might change in the future.
> 
> Concerns ?
> 
> --strk;


Hi everyone,

I think I'd like to see the regression tests included as part of a single
distribution .tar.gz mainly for the following reasons:

	1) We should encourage people compiling from source on different
platforms to run the regression tests as part of a default install.
	This would be particularly handy on platforms requiring memory
	Alignment etc. and would help increase the stability of PostGIS.

	2) I don't remember seeing many complaints about the download size
	being too large.

	3) Downstream packagers can always use produce different RPM sets
e.g.

		postgis
		postgis-devel
		postgis-regress

	to avoid the large downloads for users who just want the basics.



Kind regards,

Mark.

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