Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Andrew,
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>>A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that
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>>download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish
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>>many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and
>>installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing a lot
>>simpler in many cases.
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>>Of course, building it would be quite a bit of work :-)
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>Yeah, just ask the Perl folks.  I believe that CPAN took about 4 years
>to get working.
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They were kinda blazing a trail.

I don't think Ruby Gems took anything like that long to flesh out.

I agree with most of what Martijn said elsewhere. We shouldn't try to 
overengineer something like this.

cheers

andrew