Markus Wanner wrote: > Hi, > > Robert Haas wrote: > > I can't speak for anyone else, but I much prefer packages that make > > use of my operating system's package management system rather than > > rolling their own. If I need a perl package that I can't get through > > yum, I build my own RPMs rather than installing through CPAN. > > I very much agree to that (well, s/RPM/DEB/). > > But AFAIK we also need to provide packages for OSes without a package > management system. Windows being the most popular such OS. > > Which probably means we should provide something that can work on its > own *or* through another package management system (very much like CPAN > and others, again).
We don't get economies of scale without an OS-agnostic way of installing packages. I realize many prefer their OS-native packaging system, but that isn't the target audience of a packaging system that will increase adoption. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
