From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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 03:12:08 |
Message-ID: | 200404220312.i3M3C8D11648@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > There are only a few PostgreSQL developers who can do it, so what are
> > the odds that a single guy who maintains a plugin is going to be able to
> > do it. And you can say it is easy, but it just takes one complex
> > problem to hit you, and with PostgreSQL, and all the shared lib stuff
> > and dynamic loading, lots of it is complex.
>
> So, put together a developers kit ... you'd need, what, a half dozen files
> to bootstrap a project with? configure.in, Makefile.in, a README file
> with the basics on what needs to be modified in Makefile.in, the
> src/template directory ...
>
> If you are looking for a problem to solve, make it easier for developers
> to setup a proper build environment, don't punish end-users to giving them
> a bigger package to download
Download (100% reliable to fix problem) vs. my time to build kit --- I
pick download.
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