Re: contrib features during beta period

Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> On Friday 30 August 2002 09:29 am, Tom Lane wrote:
>> But yeah, in the long run I'd like to see one of these packages become
>> mainstream, just because full-text search is such a widely used feature.

> Agreed. We don't really have guidelines for this process; any idea what was
> the last module moved over like that?

It hasn't happened often, but I recall that the int8 code started life
as a contrib module. Let's see, looking at CVS I see
bit
dateformat
datetime
int8
ip_and_mac
metaphone
sequence
soundex
statmath
unixdate
as contrib subdirectories that aren't there anymore in current sources,
and that I think got merged, not dropped.

> There may be more modules to consider
> -- earthdistance, for instance, which has been with us for a long time.

Actually, that seems to have just disappeared completely. What the heck?
Marc, you're not physically removing stuff from CVS when you move it to
gborg, are you?

regards, tom lane