Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

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.
>
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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.

cheers

andrew