Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Well, I think there's numerous examples where someone suggests some
> >>> feature or idea, and Tom or one or two other core developers will
> >>> say: "I don't like that idea", and then the proposer will more or
> >>> less give up on it because it is clear that it won't go anywhere.
> >>
> >> Well I think that is more perception than anything. Sometimes you have
> >> to fight for what you believe in. For example plPHP. I believe plPHP
> >> belongs in core as do some other people. There are members of core
> >> that are for it and against it.
> >>
> >> Command Prompt as the submitter needs to make a valid argument to sway
> >> core. We need to present code they would be happy with. We need to
> >> present reasons why.
> >
> > I think the plan for plphp is to put the source in our CVS, but to
> > require it to be compiled as a separate 'make' step after php is fully
> > installed and using the new libpq.  I think we had agreement on that
> > solution.
>
> Last I read, both Tom and I were against it being in CVS (albeit for
> different reasons) ... and there hadn't been any discussions past the end
> of that thread that I've seen ...

I posted this compromise and no one replied so I thought everyone was OK
with it.  It gets it into CVS, but has a separate compile stage to deal
with the recursive dependency problem.

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