
>No argument here.  But the proposed Oracle "packages" are something
>completely different and don't solve any of the problems you list.

Hello,

I agree packages are not designed primarily for library installation. I 
also agree packages might need dependency checking. But packages can be 
dumped easily and have initialization functions. Therefore, IMHO, why not 
use them as library installers?

At the moment, there is only one PostgreSQL set of libraries available: 
OpenACS. On a marvelous development tool like PostgreSQL, there should be 
many more. Remember, MS Windows succeeded because of MS Office. What is 
PostgreSQL without a strong set of software libraries and applications?

PostgreSQL is mostly designed by AND for hackers. This is cultural reality 
which I do not blame. I remember users posting features requests about 
ALTER TABLES DROP COLUMN. Some answers we like "OK, this can be done, but 
what for?". Same as for packages as far as I can read the latest posts.

Cheers, Jean-Michel

Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:18:15 +0200
Jean-Michel POURE <jm.poure@freesurf.fr>
Re: Packages are needed