> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Lane > Sent: 22 March 2006 21:31 > To: Tony Caduto > Cc: Devrim GUNDUZ; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] question about the admin contrib > module and binary > > Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I understand it was created by the pgAdmin project, but > don't you think > > it would be better to be with the rest of the contrib modules? > > Except it isn't one of the contrib modules. The fact that > you think of > it as being like them doesn't make it one of them. Well in fairness to Tony we do refer to it as a 'contrib' module, but that's because it uses the contrib build system (or PGXS in SVN trunk). > > I and many others don't want to install a pgadmin rpm on a > server that > > has no GUI, that would not make any sense at all. > > Which is one very good reason why it should be a separate RPM, no? If > it were in the contrib RPM then you could not install that > RPM *at all* > on a machine that didn't have all of pgadmin's dependencies. I don't > know offhand what its dependencies are, but I'd imagine they include a > fair number of "GUI" packages. Yeah - wxWidgets, GTK etc. but none are required by the admin module, only by pgAdmin itself on the users workstation. Devrim has said he will build it as a separate RPM - in the meantime a source tarball can be downloaded from http://www.pgadmin.org/download/adminpacks.php, or the PGXS compatible versions can be found in SVN under http://svn.pgadmin.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/pgadmin3/xtra/ Regards, Dave
