Re: monolithic distro

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> But, that isn't our role ... that should be the role of whomever takes on 
>> the role of 'maintainer' for such a monolithic distribution ... its no more 
>> our role to decide that pl/Java is better or worse then pl/J ... our role 
>> is to provide that core for everyone else to build around ...
>> 
>> People like CommandPrompt, Bizgres, EnterpriseDB, Pervasive ... they have 
>> the funding to *create* and maintain that, to make sure all the parts they 
>> distribute are working properly ...
>> 
>> The resources are there, if someone (you?) wants to do this as a FOSS 
>> project, but I fear that amount of work (both time and energy) required to 
>> make the 'include all, for all' distribution is much much greater then the 
>> returns will be ... the more you add in, the more you have to co-ordinate 
>> releases with the external projects, and pull/push old/new stuff in as it 
>> becomes 'stale', etc ...
>
> Yeah, but if PostgreSQL decides to endorse one monolithic distro in the way I 
> described it could give that project hopefully the necessary lift. And the 
> ultimate goal is obviously that some of those newbies coming by way of the 
> monolithic distro turn into people that bring ressources to the PostgreSQL 
> platform/ecosystem.

Should Linus endorse (or does he?) one distro of Linux, or should they not 
live on their own merits?

>

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