Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> There are only a few PostgreSQL developers who can do it, so what are
> the odds that a single guy who maintains a plugin is going to be able to
> do it.  And you can say it is easy, but it just takes one complex
> problem to hit you, and with PostgreSQL, and all the shared lib stuff
> and dynamic loading, lots of it is complex.

So, put together a developers kit ... you'd need, what, a half dozen files
to bootstrap a project with?  configure.in, Makefile.in, a README file
with the basics on what needs to be modified in Makefile.in, the
src/template directory ...

If you are looking for a problem to solve, make it easier for developers
to setup a proper build environment, don't punish end-users to giving them
a bigger package to download


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