X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4B19DC843 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:25:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81582-08 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:25:54 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from trolak.mydnsbox2.com (ns1.mydnsbox2.com [207.44.142.118]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B6F9DC832 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:25:48 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (cpe-024-211-165-134.nc.res.rr.com [24.211.165.134]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by trolak.mydnsbox2.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0UDjOn05729; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:45:24 -0600 Message-ID: <43DE13CD.1000805@dunslane.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:25:33 -0500 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Berkus CC: markir@paradise.net.nz, pgsql@mohawksoft.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, david@fetter.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.067 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.067] X-Spam-Score: 0.067 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/915 X-Sequence-Number: 79019 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. I agree with most of what Martijn said elsewhere. We shouldn't try to overengineer something like this. cheers andrew