Re: Extension Templates S03E11

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?