On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom, Simon, etc.: > > Of the several things which "PostgreSQL could learn from MySQL" which we > > covered at pgCon was that the requirement to hunt hither and yon for > > popular add-ins is one of the primary reasons for developers not using > > PostgreSQL. > > Agreed, but I think the best response to that is something CPAN-like > for people to easily get hold of recognized extensions, and next best > (or also) a "kitchen sink" installer package that agglomerates the core > and selected outside projects. There aren't any successful extensible > projects that ignore their own extensibility and put everything > interesting into the core project.
It seems to me a better solution is to have appropriate repositories for distributions that have them than some cpan style thing that is going to break package dependencies. apt-get install postgresql-plproxy portinstall (I think that is the command) postgresql-plproxy etc... makes more sense. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
