[postgis-devel] postgis-1.5.sql

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paragon Corporation wrote:

> Since no one said anything.  Let me make it clear
> 
> 1) I like versionning the folder
> 
> BUT
> 2) I HATE the idea of versioning the sql files, because we have too many and
> with the proliferation of upgrade script files, the situation only gets
> worse and annoying.
> 
> Having to see all the files in the same folder regardless of how they are
> versioned for the different versions of postgis I would find terribly
> annoying. 
> 
> I think its an advantage to be able to run different versions of PostGIS on
> the same box especially if you are a consultant or doing dev work, but I
> just don't like seeing all those files in the same folder

For the record, I would definitely prefer the use of folders for this. 
However, PGXS currently doesn't have the ability to do this 
automatically and it would be quite a bit of a hack to do this in its 
current form :(

I'd be quite happy with an extra PGXS parameter such as MODULEDIR which 
defaults to the same value as MODULE_big. Then during a "make install", 
PGXS would drop documentation into $(docdir)/$MODULEDIR and DATA_built 
files into $(sharedir)/$MODULEDIR. Bonus points would allow entire 
directories as well as files to be installed into these locations during 
"make install" too.


ATB,

Mark.

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