Re: Extensions Dependency Checking

On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> Versions are useful for figuring out if I should upgrade packages or
> not.  But I believe the extension framework has explicitly made the
> "upgrade" problem a manual one at this point, either taking
> destination versions from the control, or the alter command.
>
> So for PGXN's problem, I see the point of versions being required.

Okay, thanks, I'm convinced (and relieved; I hated to be bringing something like this up so close to launch).

> But for installation the dependancy graph, "provides/features" rather
> than versions are much more useful.    And automatic feature/provides
> (like library so, and symbol versions in the OS package world,
> "objects" in PG world) would definitely be nice, but my Makefile can
> build those for me for now until 9.2 (or 9.3, 9.3, etc), if only I had
> a way to track them with my installed extension ;-) </stop begging>

I'm sure a patch would be welcomed. ;-P

Best,

David