On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
Steve Atkins <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
6. Where's my CPAN equivalent? Postgresql is extensible, but it's
hard to find
the extension you need, and often harder than it should be to
install.
FWIW our CPAN equivalent is pgfoundry. I don't think we quite have the
critical mass yet that Perl has to really make it a big success
though.
Kinda. It's much more like a freshmeat/sourceforge equivalent than a
CPAN equivalent. There's no standard package format, no dependency
or version handling, no possibility of automated installation.
It also has a mixture of postgresql modules, client-side code that can
access postgresql and even occasional projects that have nothing much
to do with postgresql.
Making modules more, uh, modular, so they can be installed and
uninstalled
smoothly and preferably without special access privileges is a
recognized
issue though.
Yup, that's one prerequisite for the rest of it, really. pgTap, which
we have
now, was probably another.
Cheers,
Steve
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