Re: Plugin system like Firefox

On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Markus Wanner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I can't speak for anyone else, but I much prefer packages that make
>>> use of my operating system's package management system rather than
>>> rolling their own.  If I need a perl package that I can't get  
>>> through
>>> yum, I build my own RPMs rather than installing through CPAN.
>>
>> I very much agree to that (well, s/RPM/DEB/).
>>
>> But AFAIK we also need to provide packages for OSes without a package
>> management system. Windows being the most popular such OS.
>>
>> Which probably means we should provide something that can work on its
>> own *or* through another package management system (very much like  
>> CPAN
>> and others, again).
>
> We don't get economies of scale without an OS-agnostic way of  
> installing
> packages.  I realize many prefer their OS-native packaging system, but
> that isn't the target audience of a packaging system that will  
> increase
> adoption.

If the OS-agnostic version is designed appropriately then turning
it (mechanically) into an OS-specific one should be possible.

Cheers,  Steve