On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:15:04 -0500 (EST)
Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> wrote:
> The fact that the JDBC driver requires no compilation for anyone on any
> platform is one reason for that. Anyone can visit the website and be
> working within minutes with no understanding of the build environment or
> installation. You drop the provided JAR file in your classpath and you
> are done. The same cannot be said for pl/java. Yes, it would be good if
> there were packages for it, but it's very unlikely that pl/java will be
> able to maintain up to date binary packages for every platform.
Wouldn't that be the job of the platform providers? Certainly I would
expect NetBSD to make it available as a package, both source and
binary, on every platform they support as they do for the thousands of
other packages they deal with.
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