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 B8DD69DC850 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:50:35 -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 01103-07 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:50:34 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8719DC80F for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:50:32 -0400 (AST) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [70.132.24.71] (account josh@agliodbs.com) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.1.8) with HTTP id 8893883; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:53:21 -0800 From: "Josh Berkus" Subject: Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx To: "Andrew Dunstan" , Cc: , , , X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.1.8 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:53:21 -0800 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1101.24.211.165.134.1138591399.squirrel@www.dunslane.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.037 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.037] X-Spam-Score: 0.037 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/907 X-Sequence-Number: 79011 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. --Josh