| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network |
| Date: | 2010-01-08 14:14:22 |
| Message-ID: | 4B473DBE.6080103@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 05:22, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> wrote:
>> David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Dave Page wrote:
>>>> No, I'm suggesting the mechanism needs to support source and binary
>>>> distribution. For most *nix users, source will be fine. For Windows
>>>> binaries are required.
>>> I would love to follow what Strawberry Perl has done to solve this problem. In 2.0.
>> +1. They did a nice job.
>
> For those of us who have no idea what Strawberry Perl did (other than
> not shipping Microsoft compatible libraries, and is thus useless for
> PostgreSQL), could someone explain it?
>
As far as I can tell they shipped the minimal set of tools that they needed
to build extensions rather than distribute binaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Perl
I don't know the details, but it works smoothly for them.
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