Lukas, all: > So what I am suggesting is that PostgreSQL.org should push people > towards the monolithic distro. The docs should contain everything that > is in the monolithic distro. At conference we should say the name of the > monolithic distro etc.
The issue I think you're ignoring is that maintaining such a distro and its build system for a reasonable number of platforms would require an enormous amount of work ... like, 3-4 full-time developers and at least a dozen part-time developers. Compare the staff requirements for Debian, Red Hat or SuSE. I can tell you from being the Bizgres admin for a few months that just trying to maintain/debug a build system that would do PostgreSQL + JasperReports + KETL + 4 optional modules on four platforms was easily 20-30 hours of work, *per release*. So this isn't something we can just vote into existance. Second with "endorsing" or "certifying" projects on pgFoundry and elsewhere, who has the time? To rate stuff as mature/not mature a committee of PostgreSQL people would have to be constantly reviewing projects, every single month, and probably getting into long political debates to boot. If we do less, a repeat of the libpq++/libpqxx mess is inevitable. It's very nice to throw these things out there and put them on the TODO list ... and if I had $100,000 in development money to throw at something, I might spend it that way ... but to propose them as *immediate* solutions to problems for 8.2 is fantasy. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org