Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

2015-05-29 10:37 GMT+02:00 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:

> 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?
>

I had a problem with downloading isolated packages with stackbuilder - but
it was specific, because comp where some packages was installed was not
access to internet.

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