On 11/18/11 12:27 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: >> Why do you figure that, exactly? The path of least resistance will >> be precisely to leave everything packaged as it is, in a single >> postgresql-contrib module. I'm pretty likely to do that myself for >> Fedora and RHEL. Subdividing/rearranging contrib makes the packager's >> life more complicated, *and* makes his users' lives more complicated, >> if only because things aren't where they were before. It seems unlikely >> to happen, at least in the near term. > > Then if we want packagers to move, what about removing all the > extensions not listed by Greg from the contrib/ directory and inventing > another place where to manage them, which is not automatically built, > but still part of buildfarm tests, if at all possible.
Actually, the whole idea is that the "Core Management Extensions" should move from the -contrib module to the -server module. That is, those extensions should always get installed with any server. Of course, packagers may then reasonably ask why that code is not just part of the core? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers