* Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> On 12/3/13, 9:20 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Another option, which I generally like better, is to have a new package
> > format for PGXN that contains the results of "make install",
> > more-or-less, synonymous to Debian source vs. .deb packages.
> >
> > Perhaps we could even have psql understand that format and be able to
> > install the extension via a backslash command instead of having an
> > external tool, but I think an external tool for dependency tracking and
> > downloading of necessary dependencies ala Debian would be better than
> > teaching psql to do that.
>
> How would that handle varying file system layouts on the backend?
This discussion is all about catalog-only extensions and therefore we
don't really care about anything filesystem related...
Thanks,
Stephen