<br /><br /> Josh Berkus wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200505031806.28560.josh@agliodbs.com" type="cite"><pre
wrap="">Dave,all:
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">This issue has come up before, and I opposed it then when the interfaces
were removed from the main tarball.
I really don't see the upside to reducing the size of the tarball at the
expense of ease of use. Seems to me we are
bending over backwards to make it easy for people with dial up
connections to download our "enterprise class"
database. </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
Small tarball size isn't the *primary* reason for having our
"push-it-out-to-pgFoundry" attitude, it's the *tertiary* reason. The main
two reasons are:
1) If we start including everything that's "useful", where do we stop? There
are enough pg add-ins to fill a CD -- 200 projects on GBorg and pgFoundry and
others elsewhere. And some of them probably conflict with each other. Any
decision to include some projects and not others will alienate people and
possibly be a mis-evaluation; the libpq++/libpqxx mistake comes to mind. </pre></blockquote> My main concern was
pushingout existing code, not adding code that was not in the tarball.<br /> I would have to agree deciding which to
includewould be onerous.<br /><blockquote cite="mid200505031806.28560.josh@agliodbs.com" type="cite"><pre wrap="">
2) As long as we're using CVS, the only way to organize autonomous project
teams that have authority over their special areas but no ability to change
central code is to "push out" projects to separate CVS trees. </pre></blockquote> This has never been an issue before,
AFAIK,nobody with commit privliges in a separate<br /> package has ever changed the code where they weren't supposed
to.<br/><br /> To sum this up; the arguments presented are:<br /><br /> 1) The tarball is/was too big however nobody
evercomplained.<br /> 2) CVS does not allow different groups to have commit privliges, but nobody has ever violated the
trust<br/><br /> Is this really the situation ? <br /><br /><blockquote cite="mid200505031806.28560.josh@agliodbs.com"
type="cite"><prewrap="">
>From my perspective, putting together a coherent "distribution" of PostgreSQL
with all the add-ins you want is the job of commercial distributors and
possibly OSS projects like Bizgres. </pre></blockquote><br /><br /><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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