Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with the subsequent comments suggesting a sample module that
>>> actually does something useful --- although if it's going to link to
>>> external code like cracklib, it probably is going to have to be on
>>> pgfoundry not in contrib.
>>>
>
>
>> Why is that? we have plenty of other things in contrib that rely on
>> external code, for example the uuid, xml or ssl stuff.
>>
>
> Well, maybe. I was concerned about availability, portability, license
> compatibility, and so on. The bar's a lot lower for pgfoundry projects
> on all those points ...
>
>
Yeah. I don't want to add another external dependency if we can avoid
it. A module that depends on another library needs configure support
etc. Surely we could provide something at least mildly useful without
it getting too complex or depending on an external library.
Remember, this is an example, not meant to have all the bells and
whistles anyone could want.
cheers
andrew
