Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On 29 May 2015 at 02:50, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> On 5/28/15 3:35 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > What we would need for this is an 'extensions' directory, or similar,
> > and a clear definition of what the requirements are around getting into
> > it are. With that, we could decide for each module currently in contrib
> > if it should go into the 'extensions' directory. I'm not sure that we
> > would necessairly have to remove the contrib module or any modules which
> > are deemed to not be appropriate for the 'extensions' directory.
>
> This seems reasonable to me. It's in line with the recent move from
> contrib to bin. It'll just be quite a bit bigger of an undertaking.
> (50 threads to discuss the merits of each module separately?) Maybe
> start by picking the top 5 and sort those out.

+1 for Extensions directory for 9.6

This doesn't seem worth delaying the release for.

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