Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> The right way to proceed is what was mentioned in another message: work
>> harder at educating packagers about which non-core projects are worth
>> including in their packages.  I have to confess contributing to the
>> problem, as I'm not currently including eg. Slony in the Red Hat RPMs.
>> I certainly should be --- but "fixing" that by pushing Slony into the
>> core PG distro is not a solution.
>>
>> 
>
> Well, there are other good reasons not to in the slony case.
>
> But anyway, I was wondering if we could make life easier by providing a 
> script which would fetch some set of addon features, and make building the 
> whole lot together easy.
>
> No doubt some people will not want to make choices, but I think we need to, 
> to some extent. I broadly agree with what Martijn has just said, although I 
> doubt that pgFoundry's Top Downloads section is much of a guide. If we 
> recommend something we need to be prepared to exerciase some jusgement and 
> have the courage of our convictions.
>
> Personally, I would start with:
>
> pl/java
> pl/ruby
> pl/php
> jdbc driver
> odbc driver
> npgsql
> python stuff (not sure which, as I don't use it)
>>
> The perl and php clients, and libpqxx would also be possibilities.

Just a thought, but if one of the big beefs is ppl not finding out about 
things, why not just add a simple README.addons to the distribution, and 
have it so that when a 'make install' is finished, the last thing that 
happens is this get 'less'd to their screen?

The thing is, this whole discussion is moot *except* as far as packagers 
are concerned, or the ones that download from ftp.postgresql.org and build 
from source ... a packager is going to split all those individual 'extras' 
off into seperate packages, or, I imagine, in alot of cases, not do 
*anything* with them as its not within their realm of interest ...

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