Tom Lane wrote: > Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As I've said on other parts of this thread, my concern with moving > > everything to gborg/pgFoundry is that it raises the bar in terms of > > difficulty if we expect every individual project to develop their own > > infrastructure. > > I think that's exactly right. It may be okay for the core project to > decide these little side projects are outside our responsibility --- > but what we had better take responsibility for is a framework within > which it's easy to maintain little side projects. The cost of that > infrastructure is too high to expect the little projects to handle it > individually. > > > What we need to really make that work is to provide an > > infrastructure similar to Perl's CPAN or the R project's CRAN. > > There's more than one issue. CPAN makes it easy for end users to find > and install little projects. We need that, but we also need to make it > easy for programmers to build and maintain those projects. There was > some speculation earlier in the thread about whether the existing > contrib framework would do as a basis --- I don't know if it can be made > to work, or if it's sufficient, but it might do. In any case we can't > just toss contrib modules over the side and expect that good things will > happen to them when they can't even be built outside the main tree. > The effort to fix that on a retail basis would alone guarantee that > they will be stillborn projects.
What if we create a build/ directory as part of install that pg_config.h, Makefile.global, etc, anything a plugin would need, and install it by default. Then, if we give folks an easy way to access them from their own apps and Makefiles, it would solve most of the problems. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
