On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:15:04 -0500 (EST) Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that the JDBC driver requires no compilation for anyone on any > platform is one reason for that. Anyone can visit the website and be > working within minutes with no understanding of the build environment or > installation. You drop the provided JAR file in your classpath and you > are done. The same cannot be said for pl/java. Yes, it would be good if > there were packages for it, but it's very unlikely that pl/java will be > able to maintain up to date binary packages for every platform.
Wouldn't that be the job of the platform providers? Certainly I would expect NetBSD to make it available as a package, both source and binary, on every platform they support as they do for the thousands of other packages they deal with. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
