[postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

[Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski]

Advantage is the distribution channels: you want some things packaged on
clouds and linux repos.

In postgres world that really matters for binary, c-based, extensions - you
can't get that from SQL side. Letters are just a table plus a function.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 1:15 PM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 04:22:40PM -0500, Regina Obe wrote:
> > Might be too big to throw into main (data wise), but as included as a
> > separate extension in repo would be nice.
>
> What advantage would this be compared to separate extension in
> separate repository as it is now ? Just wondering...
>
> I think the whole "extra" business in PostGIS was mostly done
> because it was hard, with SVN, to have a new repository.
> Nowadays OSGeo (among many others) allows users to easily setup
> their repositories, so why would we want to merge things togheter
> rather than keeping things modular ?
>
> I'd be even tempted to move address_standardizer out, as I don't
> think it's postgis-specific ?
>
> > I suppose it is good for testing out functions and hello world :)
>
> What advantage does it bring to testing that's not already available
> from geometry generation functions ?
>
> --strk;
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