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

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>,<markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <david@fetter.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-01-30T05:53:21Z
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Andrew,

> A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that
> will
> download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish
> many
> 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.
> 
> Of course, building it would be quite a bit of work :-)

Yeah, just ask the Perl folks.  I believe that CPAN took about 4 years
to get working.

--Josh