Re: Policy on pulling in code from other projects?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Policy on pulling in code from other projects?
Date: 2011-07-25 02:12:36
Message-ID: 1311559785-sup-9065@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Dave Page's message of sáb jul 23 02:25:30 -0400 2011:

> Also consider if the library is widely available on common distros or
> not. If not, packagers are going to have to start packaging that
> first, in order to build the PostgreSQL packages. This is a *huge*
> issue for use if we want to use wxWidgets addon libraries with
> pgAdmin.

More likely, they are going to ignore it and pass the --disable-liburi
(whatever) configure parameter and the functionality is going to be
absent most of the time anyway.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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