Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 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

Download (100% reliable to fix problem) vs. my time to build kit --- I
pick download.

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