Re: [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Albert Cervera i Areny <albert(at)nan-tic(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online
Date: 2007-08-30 13:30:11
Message-ID: 200708301530.12873.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Donnerstag, 30. August 2007 15:13 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
> What? No it doesn't. You have missed the key word in the sentence above:
> "standard". The idea is that the docs will describe the *standard*
> modules, i.e. those that ship with the PostgreSQL core distribution
> (because they are currently in contrib).
>
> If you want to design a pluggable documentation system then go for it,
> but it's not required by what I understand is the consensus plan for
> contrib.

That brings up additional questions such as what is standard and whose
consensus. You initially referred to Perl, and I note that Perl modules
shipped with the main Perl package ("standard"?) and those that are not
provide access to their facilities in identical ways. That's as far as I can
read your mind anyway. ;-)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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