Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement
Date: 2005-05-05 17:02:57
Message-ID: 20050505140207.L42300@ganymede.hub.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-advocacy pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>>> But packaging them as separately buildable tarballs that depend only
>>> on the installed core fileset (headers + pgxs) seems a fine idea.
>
>> I really can't see doing this without a better (i.e. CPAN / emerge / ports -
>> like ) build system. Mind you, I'd really like such a build system, but if
>> we require users to manually download several separate tarballs and untar
>> them in exactly the right spot in the source tree, we're adding a bunch of
>> extra effort for both users and packagers.
>
> Uh, that's not exactly what is being proposed. It would be a separate
> tarball that you could untar wherever you felt like, because it would
> not depend on the core source tree at all --- only on the files
> installed by a previous build of the core.
>
> I think Marc just suggested having all the PLs in one such tarball,
> rather than one for each which is what I was envisioning.

Nope, I should have shut up about this, actually ... all I was proposing
was an easy way for me (and nobody else) to do simultaneious tagging and
branching without having to check out multiple modules individually ... as
I said, I should have shut up about it, since its not something anyone
else would care about :)

----
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

In response to

Browse pgsql-advocacy by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Marc G. Fournier 2005-05-05 17:05:55 Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement
Previous Message Marc G. Fournier 2005-05-05 17:01:22 Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Marc G. Fournier 2005-05-05 17:05:55 Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement
Previous Message Marc G. Fournier 2005-05-05 17:01:22 Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement