Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> 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.

Right, but you don't count ... you aren't an end-user

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