Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions
Date: 2004-04-22 02:27:07
Message-ID: 20040421232248.W32445@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I was thinking about CPAN. They have download stuff, but it installs
> very easily. I wonder if we should allow gborg projects to interface to
> our configure output in a way that makes it easier for them to be
> installed.

No, because again that requires you to download a large tar ball just to
get the build environment?

> The gborg is easy for development and releasing, but loses in the
> easy-of-use category sometimes.

So, what we *should* be looking at it some sort of howto on how to setup
an autoconf environment ... the basics aren't too hard, its only when you
get into the more complicated stuff that only *large* projects tend to get
into that it gets particulary confusing ...

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