Andrew,
> A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that
> will
> download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish
> many
> many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and
> installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing a lot
> simpler in many cases.
>
> Of course, building it would be quite a bit of work :-)
Yeah, just ask the Perl folks. I believe that CPAN took about 4 years
to get working.
--Josh