Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Right, but you don't count ... you aren't an end-user

True, but what the end users get is nothing because I don't have the
time. No configure, no build environment, very user-unfriendly.

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