| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: contrib promotion? |
| Date: | 2006-07-21 21:06:45 |
| Message-ID: | 44C141E5.20803@commandprompt.com |
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>> So I would like either some mention of the more useful/stable modules
>> in core docs or a way for contrib modules to become 'official' add-on
>> modules (like PL-s are).
>
> This is actually an issue that goes way beyond pgcrypto. I think the
> manual should formally mention both /contrib and pgFoundry.org as
> someplace to get add-on features. An even better long-term solution
> would be something akin to CPAN, but I'm not holding my breath for
> that...
The manual does talk about pgFoundry, especially in 8.2 (that was my
patch ;)).
It talks about it in 8.1 as well but it is not as apparent.
Joshua D. Drake
>
>> Full merge into core would fix this also, but indeed there is not many
>> techical reasons for it. (And editing pg_proc.h is PITA - I'd consider
>> it technical reason against it ;)
>>
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>> marko
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