Re: development setup and libdir

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> I'm absolutely aware I can't ask features unless someone is willing
> to implement them or is paid for... but the easier/cheaper it is to
> build up a dev/test environment the more people will try to
> build/test something for postgres.
>

I do all my build/test work on Ubuntu using my peg tool:
http://github.com/gregs1104/peg specifically because I find it such a
giant pain to deal with the Debian packaging when developing. It does
all of the things you're complaining take too long to setup just for
development work. Dump the whole working tree in your home directory,
build and test everything there, avoid the whole mess of what the OS
install cares about. Once I've got something that works, only then do I
bother figuring out how I'm going to get that integrated back into the
packaging system's PostgreSQL install.

The difficulties in making modules generally easier to install are well
understood, and many people have been working on potential improvements
to that whole situation for a while now. It's a hard problem though.

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