Re: Policy on pulling in code from other projects?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Policy on pulling in code from other projects?
Date: 2011-07-25 10:56:12
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYQ6HEgsdmAo-HWBkk=m4_cZbM-8puPNjSZxSt3Tuqg=A@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Dave Page's message of sáb jul 23 02:25:30 -0400 2011:
>
>> Also consider if the library is widely available on common distros or
>> not. If not, packagers are going to have to start packaging that
>> first, in order to build the PostgreSQL packages. This is a *huge*
>> issue for use if we want to use wxWidgets addon libraries with
>> pgAdmin.
>
> More likely, they are going to ignore it and pass the --disable-liburi
> (whatever) configure parameter and the functionality is going to be
> absent most of the time anyway.

That wouldn't be too good either...

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Robert Haas
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