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Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-18T14:20:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>  
>
>>Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to
>>replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that
>>(as long as the code was good enough) that we could incorporate
>>plPHP???
>>    
>>
>
>One reason against including plPHP in the core would be that it would 
>create a circular build dependency between the packages postgresql and 
>php.  I think we should rather avoid that.
>  
>
It is no different that the dependency between plPerl and Perl, plPython 
and Python or worse
plTCL and TCL (which typically isn't installed anymore).

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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