| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: deprecating contrib for PGXN |
| Date: | 2011-05-18 17:29:06 |
| Message-ID: | 8F09289E-7CD9-49A2-B73F-08B44F2578AC@kineticode.com |
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On May 18, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think building tools so that PGXN distributions are automatically harvested and turned into StackBuilder/RPM/.deb binaries would be the place to start on that.
>
> Hmmm ... I think the real point of those policies about "no source
> builds" is to ensure that their systems are only running code that's
> been vetted to some degree by a responsible person (ie, an authorized
> packager for whatever distro they run). So any sort of automated
> collection of packages would go directly against what the policies are
> trying to accomplish, and would likely lead to the policies being
> amended to specifically ban use of your repo :-(
Well, it's up to the maintainers of those repos whether they want use such a feed. Magnus and Devrim seemed interested in it on Twitter last week; Magnus, in fact, originally suggested it.
https://twitter.com/magnushagander/status/65431239770898434
Best,
David
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