Re: RFC: PGAN

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:

> I was suggesting that you have a level of indirection between the PGAN client
> and make so that it's easy to support both the current standard installer
> (make) and whatever else might come in the future.

Oh, yeah, of course. Since I fully expect PostgreSQL to develop something in this department, it will be pluggable. What will come after make I don't know, but I expect it to change and will still want to support old stuff when it does.

> Writing make is pretty easy.  Writing something that writes make and shell and
> whatever else is less so; that's what I was referring to.

Yeah, I want no part of that. ;-)

Best,

David
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