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Re: RFC: Extension Packaging & Lookup

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Cc: Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io>, Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2024-10-29T18:12:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Oct 29, 2024, at 14:09, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote

> So far, no one has approached me ("the packaging team") about which
> problems I need solved with extensions (apart from the PGSHAREDIR
> issue).
> 
>> Is that something people would be interested in? As someone who writes
>> software, I largely find reaching the distribution channels is always the
>> hardest part.
> 
> Well, talk to me and Devrim.

So far, most of the ideas I’ve brought up with Devrim and you --- like packaging Go and Rust/PGRX extensions, or packaging pre-compiled binaries --- have been met with pretty clear “no”s. Understandably! So I personally have deferred mentioning much more until I have some more explicit ideas. :-)

Best,

David