Re: New Contrib Build? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: New Contrib Build?
Date
Msg-id 200505120152.17389.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: New Contrib Build?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: New Contrib Build?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> First, I *really* wish we'd call it something else. Contrib conveys
> "unsupported" to people.

And that's exactly what it is supposed to mean.  We say, these modules 
do not necessarily meet our standards with regard to code quality, 
portability, user interfaces, internationalization, documentation, etc.  
There is certainly a lot of good software in contrib and one could in 
individual cases consider moving them out of there, but contrib is what 
it is.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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