Re: PGXN Hosting

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-www www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PGXN Hosting
Date: 2011-05-11 20:18:39
Message-ID: 47F47BDA-0B07-4E8E-8AE5-AAB532F5F089@kineticode.com
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On May 11, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> IIRC you can't do that with CPAN today for example, which is why
> people tend to prefer to rely on the DEB packaged CPAN modules,
> because then the packager takes on the responsibility to backpatch
> fixes.

That's correct. It's the same for PGXN.

>> As for packaging what's on PGXN, I've discussed a bit with Daniele, Magnus, and Devrim (via Twitter) the idea of having some kind of automated way for PGXN distributions to automatically be repackaged for RPM and/or .deb and/or StackBuilder distribution.
>
> Yeah, that's definitely something that would be *very* useful.

I think it'd be pretty do-able.

Best,

David

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