On Feb 14, 2017, at 5:37 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> wrote:
>> Until pgxn has a way of helping users on for example Windows (or other
>> platforms where they don't have a pgxs system and a compiler around),
>> it's always going to be a "second class citizen".
>
> I view that as more of a failing of pgxs than pgxn. Granted, the most common (only?) pgxn client right now is written
inpython, but it's certainly possible to run that on windows with some effort (BigSQL does it), and I'm fairly certain
it'snot that hard to package a python script as a windows .exe.
Yeah, that’s outside of PGXN’s mandate. It doesn’t do any installing at all, just distribution (release, search,
download).Even the Python client just looks to see what build support is in a distribution it downloads to decide how
tobuild it (make, configure, etc.), IIRC.
David