On 3/5/18 5:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> writes: >> On 3/5/18 5:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> writes: >>>> I'm not sure what the protocol for introducing a new Perl module is? I >>>> couldn't find packages for the major OSes. Are we OK with using CPAN? > >>> I don't think that's cool. Anything that's not part of a standard Perl >>> installation is a bit of a lift already, and if it's not packaged by >>> major distros then it's really a problem for many people. (Yeah, they >>> may know what CPAN is, but they might have local policy issues about >>> installing directly from there.) > >> It's a little different here, because these packages are only used for >> testing/development. > > True, but if we want this test to be part of either check-world or the > buildfarm run, that's still a lot of people we're asking to install > the extra module. If we're talking about saving just a few dozen > lines of code, it ain't worth it.
+1. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net
