Subject: Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, markir@paradise.net.nz,
	pgsql@mohawksoft.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, david@fetter.org,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Date: 30 Jan 2006 11:32:23 -0500
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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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