Re: plPHP and plRuby

On 17-Jul-06, at 6:37 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>> Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2006-07-17 kell 22:01, kirjutas Martijn van
>> Oosterhout:
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> Well, I am not making any promises right now about when
>>>> buildfarm will
>>>> support external modules.
>>>
>>> I've been playing with the idea of having a subdirectory named
>>> "extras"
>>> with descriptor files describing how to fetch a project and
>>> compile it.
>>> I got the fetching and the unpacking going, but the building isn't
>>> there yet. Still, it's an interesting idea...
>>
>> Actually it would be nice to have the not-included PLs present in
>> src/pl/ as their own directories with a README.TXT containing
>> fetch and
>> build instructions
>>
>> So we would have
>>
>> src/pl/plphp/README.TXT
>> src/pl/pljava/README.TXT
>> src/pl/plj/README.TXT
>>
>> and anybody looking for pl-s would find the info in a logical place
>
> *That* idea I like ...

Actually taking that one step further. At least two or three of these
projects have automated build processes (Ruby and Java, and I believe
Python), placing their equivalent of Makefile into this dir would
allow users versed in the language of choice to build their extension
easily.
>
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