| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Quick Extensions Question |
| Date: | 2011-03-03 18:32:53 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=217dqqhuW2oO-pwiQcOFKvvKa2S3TuYf3jKf5@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> Requires: package
>> Requires: package >= minversion
>> Requires: package <= maxversion
>> Requires: package = exactversion
>>
>> The usefulness of the first two should be obvious, but the third and
>> fourth are needed as well.
>
> In the long term, perhaps. But for right now, just >= would address 90% of the problem. That's all CPAN modules have, and while it's occasionally annoying, it's *very* occasionally.
>
>> I think it's important that we don't get too confident that we've
>> solved this problem in its full generality. I very much doubt that
>> that's the case.
>
> Who said anything about full generality? I'm interested in a 90% (or even 99%) solution.
It's pretty important that we don't design ourselves into a corner here.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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