Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

What we are proposing is just including the C code which will have no
external
dependancies.

We understand that building the java pl's requires many tools which are
not normally
available to people building the source.

Dave

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
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>>Note that what Tom is proposing is actually yanking *all* PLs from the
>>core source tree, but having them all within the core CVS ... I believe
>>his "motivation" is that he only has one CVSROOT to set to get at all the
>>files, but that they are seperate from the core distribution itself ...
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>plpgsql should probably stay where it is, since it has no special
>outside dependencies, but the other three could be separated out.
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>>Basically, each has to be buildable/distributable standalone, but easily
>>accessible for making changes if/when APIs change ...
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>I want them all in the same CVS basically to avoid any version skew
>issues. They should always have the same branches and the same tags
>as the core, for instance; and it seems hard to keep separate
>repositories in sync that closely.
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>But packaging them as separately buildable tarballs that depend only
>on the installed core fileset (headers + pgxs) seems a fine idea.
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> regards, tom lane
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