Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:41:10AM +1200, Brent Wood wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 May 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > I am not sure that Postgres needs CPAN. CPAN is particularly useful for > > handling dependencies. I doubt that there will be lots of dependencies in > > Postgres add ons. So havin

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Dawid Kuroczko wrote: On 5/22/06, Florian G. Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: elein wrote: > This issue is a very old issue and people have not come up with > the definitive solution to distributing "datablades" as Stonebraker > called them. True, but OTOH there is no "definitive solution" for O

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 5/22/06, Florian G. Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: elein wrote: > This issue is a very old issue and people have not come up with > the definitive solution to distributing "datablades" as Stonebraker > called them. True, but OTOH there is no "definitive solution" for OS-level package managem

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread elein
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:10:11PM +0200, Florian G. Pflug wrote: > elein wrote: > >This issue is a very old issue and people have not come up with > >the definitive solution to distributing "datablades" as Stonebraker > >called them. > True, but OTOH there is no "definitive solution" for OS-level

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Florian G. Pflug
elein wrote: This issue is a very old issue and people have not come up with the definitive solution to distributing "datablades" as Stonebraker called them. True, but OTOH there is no "definitive solution" for OS-level package management too, but still "apt-get" or "rpm" do a pretty decent job.

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread elein
This issue is a very old issue and people have not come up with the definitive solution to distributing "datablades" as Stonebraker called them. For now, the best way is to have small well managed projects on PgFoundry and encourage people to review what is available there. Maybe we can even mak

RES: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Alejandro Michelin Salomon \( Adinet \)
ada em: segunda-feira, 22 de maio de 2006 12:39 -->Para: Agent M -->Cc: Postgres general mailing list -->Assunto: Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN! --> --> -->Agent M wrote: -->> I think the implementation of postgresql installable packages (and -->> package-

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Agent M wrote: I think the implementation of postgresql installable packages (and package-space) should precede this idea. Then, any package management system can install the packages. Having a standardizes package management for postgresql would be great. I believe one could use schemas to en

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Brent Wood
On Sat, 20 May 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I am not sure that Postgres needs CPAN. CPAN is particularly useful for > handling dependencies. I doubt that there will be lots of dependencies in > Postgres add ons. So having something like the current system where you > download and build package

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-22 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 5/20/06, Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am not sure that Postgres needs CPAN. CPAN is particularly useful for handling dependencies. I doubt that there will be lots of dependencies in Postgres add ons. So having something like the current system where you download and build packa

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I am not sure that Postgres needs CPAN. CPAN is particularly useful for handling dependencies. I doubt that there will be lots of dependencies in Postgres add ons. So having something like the current system where you download and build packages from source isn't going to be improved much with a CP

Re: [GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-20 Thread Agent M
I think the implementation of postgresql installable packages (and package-space) should precede this idea. Then, any package management system can install the packages. On May 20, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Dawid Kuroczko wrote: Comrehensive PostgreSQL Archive Network, or CPgAN ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬

[GENERAL] Let's make CPgAN!

2006-05-20 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
The idea that came up in the -hackers and -advocacy lists, and I think it should be brought up as a separate thread, in -general. Backgroud Once in a while someone comes and suggests adding some package to postgresql-contrib. Some other person asks for some feature and is directed at Pgfoundry.