Joe Conway wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I was thinking about CPAN. They have download stuff, but it installs > > very easily. I wonder if we should allow gborg projects to interface to > > our configure output in a way that makes it easier for them to be > > installed. > > Now that idea I like. The R project also has something similar that > allows a standard R command to download, compile, and install their > equivalent to contrib packages. They even have an automated system of > testing the contributed packages to ensure they work. If the package > doesn't meet certain standards, it is automatically dropped from the > link list on the download page. See: > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.pdf > if you're interested. Very impressive, but also a huge amount of work to > set up. > > > The gborg is easy for development and releasing, but loses in the > > easy-of-use category sometimes. > > I agree.
I am thinking they could untar into a directory under pgsgl/ or have a way to point to a 'configure'-run source tree and pull values from there. If you include pg_config.h, or use Makefile.global, you have almost everything you need to compile your own, including flags, configure checks, and the location of the installation directory. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
