Re: [Firebird-devel] Improve release filenames

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:04:20 +0200
Mark Rotteveel <ma...@la...> wrote:

> On 24-08-2022 15:36, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> > Mark Rotteveel wrote 24.08.2022 15:32:  
> >> If the term is confusing or ambiguous, it already is so in its current 
> >> form.  
> > 
> >    Yes, it is. That's why I would suggest to change that.  
> 
> The Windows pdb packages are complete builds though. So maybe those 
> should be "debug", while the Linux builds should be "debug-symbols" or 
> something like that.

The windows pdb packages contain complete builds partly because of the
requirement that anything installable must be uninstallable. Just dropping
a bunch of pdb's into the install dir will soone or later leave a mess
behind it. 

More importantly, it is essential that the symbols exactly match the
binaries, otherwise the debugger will complain and the whole exercise will
be largely useless. Shipping a complete kit guarantees that everything will
match up and can be uninstalled easily.

But I agree with Dimitry - we should take care to distinguish kits
containing debug symbols from actual 'Debug' builds.


Paul
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