Re: Plugin system like Firefox

Hi,

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The bottom line is that for software to be successful we need a critical
> mass, and as long as we are doing OS-specific plugins we aren't going to
> reach that critical mass because the OS-specific aspect splits up
> demand.

What about the pgxs toolchain? Doesn't that provide enough 
OS-abstraction to be usable for projects outside of Postgres itself? If 
no, why not? (I've currently only used it for extensions under different 
Linuxen, so I can't tell much about OS-specific aspects of it).

Are you proposing that we should introduce our own packaging system for 
such add-on components? Like CP(g)AN (which has been proposed before..)?

Regards

Markus Wanner