From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: markir@paradise.net.nz
Cc: pgsql@mohawksoft.com
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: david@fetter.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx
Date: 30 Jan 2006 11:32:23 -0500
Message-ID: <1138638753.1990.149.camel@camel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DE13CD.1000805@dunslane.net>
References: <web-8893883@davinci.ethosmedia.com>
<43DE13CD.1000805@dunslane.net>
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> >Andrew,
> >
> >
> >
> >>A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that
> >>will
> >>download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish
> >>many
> >>many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and
> >>installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing a lot
> >>simpler in many cases.
> >>
> >>Of course, building it would be quite a bit of work :-)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yeah, just ask the Perl folks. I believe that CPAN took about 4 years
> >to get working.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> They were kinda blazing a trail.
>
> I don't think Ruby Gems took anything like that long to flesh out.
>
probably cause they were using ruby instead of perl! ;-)
Robert Treat
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