From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely |
Date: | 2015-05-29 08:37:11 |
Message-ID: | CA+OCxoww6CmM=L3BX+esSF=EaZC8NobCZoGme0sBgAhLmeMa0g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> 2015-05-29 8:20 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>:
>>
>> Le 29 mai 2015 8:10 AM, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> a écrit
>> :
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I am not sure if PGXN can substitute contrib - mainly due deployment -
>> > It doesn't helps with MS Windows. Installing necessary software for
>> > compilation there is terrible.
>> >
>>
>> I agree it's hard to compile an extension on Windows, but that's already
>> what we have. And I'm sure EDB will put all interesting contrib modules in
>> their windows installer to help users. They already go way further than any
>> Linux packages.
>
> I afraid so dependency on EDB in this case is wrong - I have respect to EDB
> due work, but installation other extension from EDB stack is difficult,
> unclean, and nothing what I would to use as new base.
The five or six mouse clicks required to install something like Slony
or PostGIS (or both at once) is difficult and unclean?
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