Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 05:22, Ron Mayer <rm...@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote: >> David E. Wheeler wrote: >>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Dave Page wrote: >>>> No, I'm suggesting the mechanism needs to support source and binary >>>> distribution. For most *nix users, source will be fine. For Windows >>>> binaries are required. >>> I would love to follow what Strawberry Perl has done to solve this problem. >>> In 2.0. >> +1. They did a nice job. > > For those of us who have no idea what Strawberry Perl did (other than > not shipping Microsoft compatible libraries, and is thus useless for > PostgreSQL), could someone explain it? >
As far as I can tell they shipped the minimal set of tools that they needed to build extensions rather than distribute binaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Perl I don't know the details, but it works smoothly for them. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
