| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, david(at)fetter(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx |
| Date: | 2006-01-30 13:25:33 |
| Message-ID: | 43DE13CD.1000805@dunslane.net |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
>Andrew,
>
>
>
>>A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that
>>will
>>download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish
>>many
>>many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and
>>installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing a lot
>>simpler in many cases.
>>
>>Of course, building it would be quite a bit of work :-)
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, just ask the Perl folks. I believe that CPAN took about 4 years
>to get working.
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>
>
>
They were kinda blazing a trail.
I don't think Ruby Gems took anything like that long to flesh out.
I agree with most of what Martijn said elsewhere. We shouldn't try to
overengineer something like this.
cheers
andrew
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