Re: [PATCHES] Re: PostGIS spatial extensions

Brook Milligan writes:

> Doesn't this discussion indicate that the time is fast approaching, if
> not already past, for some type of system for handling installation of
> 3rd party software?

Yes.

> - Definition and implementation of the interface to be provided for
>   extensions.  Presumably, this would involve defining a well-designed
>   set of public header files and associated libraries at the right
>   level of granularity.

This is not going to happen.  One of the features of the extensibility is
that you can extend pretty much everything.

> - Definition and implementation of a consistent extension management
>   system for retrieving, compiling, and installing extensions.

Retrieving and compiling are solved problems.  I don't want us to get
involved in creating build tools.

As for installing the extensions into the server, there's clearly some
room for improvement.  I was just thinking that we could have a simple
package management system where any number of functions, tables, types,
etc. could belong to a package and then you can remove everything with one
command.  I think this is what SQL might mean with modules.

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