Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> 'add-ons' is far too short sighted (much like the seemingly endless
> mentions of CPAN). There are far more things than just add-ons to deal
> with, and most of them could never be installed/managed with anything
> like CPAN.

I claim there's nothing useful we can do with those things anyways.
The reason CPAN is a success is because it tackles a single problem
which is susceptible to a technical solution and makes people's lives
easier.

> Consider just Windows for a minute - we have database
> add-ons (think contrib modules), applications such as pgAdmin, .NET
> applications which may need certain versions of the .NET runtimes, IIS
> applications, PHP apps that need a suitable Apache/PHP build, JBOSS
> apps......
>
> All those things are things we want to tell users about, to show off
> the rich range of 'stuff' you can get to work with PostgreSQL. Most
> don't even remotely fit into the add-ons class though.

Well we want the whole world of data driven software to use Postgres
don't we? Trying to market software based on what databases it
interoperates with and organize the world into web sites with one for
each database layer seems backwards. It makes more sense to organize
and market software based on the user visible functionality and just
assume they all support postgres.





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greg