Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> >
> > >
> > > plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution
> > > ...
> >
> > Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to
> > replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as
> > long as the code was good enough) that we could incorporate plPHP???
> 
> That is the plan ... unless someone knows a reason why they can't be built
> independently of the core?  ecpg relies on the grammar files in core, but
> as far as I knew (please correct me if I'm wrong) the pls only rely on
> headers and libraries that get installed ...

Server-side languages are tied into the backend even closer than the
user data types.  They are best in the core distribution.  We didn't put
plR in core because it had a conflicting license.

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