Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 05:22, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote:
>> David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Dave Page wrote:
>>>> No, I'm suggesting the mechanism needs to support source and binary
>>>> distribution. For most *nix users, source will be fine. For Windows
>>>> binaries are required.
>>> I would love to follow what Strawberry Perl has done to solve this problem. In 2.0.
>> +1.   They did a nice job.
> 
> For those of us who have no idea what Strawberry Perl did (other than
> not shipping Microsoft compatible libraries, and is thus useless for
> PostgreSQL), could someone explain it?
> 

As far as I can tell they shipped the minimal set of tools that they needed
to build extensions rather than distribute binaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Perl
I don't know the details, but it works smoothly for them.