Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2015-05-29 8:20 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>:
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>> Le 29 mai 2015 8:10 AM, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> a écrit
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>> > Hi
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>> > I am not sure if PGXN can substitute contrib - mainly due deployment -
>> > It doesn't helps with MS Windows. Installing necessary software for
>> > compilation there is terrible.
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>> I agree it's hard to compile an extension on Windows, but that's already
>> what we have. And I'm sure EDB will put all interesting contrib modules in
>> their windows installer to help users. They already go way further than any
>> Linux packages.
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> I afraid so dependency on EDB in this case is wrong - I have respect to EDB
> due  work, but installation other extension from EDB stack is difficult,
> unclean, and nothing what I would to use as new base.

The five or six mouse clicks required to install something like Slony
or PostGIS (or both at once) is difficult and unclean?

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