Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> 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.

Speaking with my Windows packager hat on, compiling with MinGW would
not be that terrible I think for extensions, as all the existing
Makefile machinery could be used for this purpose. MSVC stuff is more
complicated though with what we have in-core, but still I think that
we could do something with them if we refactor a bit the code and make
easier the declaration of Project objects and have some proper
documentation in the extension chapter, the idea being that users
should not need to build more than a simple build.pl file linking to
some of .pm files of the in-core perl module scripts, basically with a
switch to src/tools/msvc. You would need to have those modules as well
as the compiled deliverables to compile the extensions, but that's the
same deal as any devel-* package on Linux.
--
Michael