Re: contrib promotion?

>> So I would like either some mention of the more useful/stable modules
>> in core docs or a way for contrib modules to become 'official' add-on
>> modules (like PL-s are).
>  
> This is actually an issue that goes way beyond pgcrypto. I think the
> manual should formally mention both /contrib and pgFoundry.org as
> someplace to get add-on features. An even better long-term solution
> would be something akin to CPAN, but I'm not holding my breath for
> that...

The manual does talk about pgFoundry, especially in 8.2 (that was my 
patch ;)).

It talks about it in 8.1 as well but it is not as apparent.

Joshua D. Drake




> 
>> Full merge into core would fix this also, but indeed there is not many
>> techical reasons for it.  (And editing pg_proc.h is PITA - I'd consider
>> it technical reason against it ;)
>>
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>> marko
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