Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote: > > > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote: > > No, I don't call that lazy, I call it smart. It makes use (reuse) of a > > part of Postgres (the contrib build system) that is among its strengths. > > Is it your goal to make it harder for people to write their own C > > language functions? It makes no sense whatsoever to expect everyone who > > wants to extend Postgres to develop their own build system. I'd call > > that alot of duplicated effort -- effort better spent more productively. > > Then, like I mentined to Bruce, we should be looking at some sort of > template that those developers can work off of ... downloading an 11Meg > file to build a 2k module seems a wee bit excessive, no?
OK, I think the number of files needed to build modules is small and I think can be installed by default in a /build directory. I am thinking that with a little script help, projects can build apps that look like like Makefiles used in our core project. -- 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 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
