On 3/5/18 5:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> writes:
>> On 3/5/18 5:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> writes:
>>>> I'm not sure what the protocol for introducing a new Perl module is? I
>>>> couldn't find packages for the major OSes. Are we OK with using CPAN?
>
>>> I don't think that's cool. Anything that's not part of a standard Perl
>>> installation is a bit of a lift already, and if it's not packaged by
>>> major distros then it's really a problem for many people. (Yeah, they
>>> may know what CPAN is, but they might have local policy issues about
>>> installing directly from there.)
>
>> It's a little different here, because these packages are only used for
>> testing/development.
>
> True, but if we want this test to be part of either check-world or the
> buildfarm run, that's still a lot of people we're asking to install
> the extra module. If we're talking about saving just a few dozen
> lines of code, it ain't worth it.
+1.
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net
