On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:03:45AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> 
> Can we make a difference between the core engine (which must build of 
> course with tools that are required to build PG only) and the admin and 
> config scripts/tools?
> 
> There is no need to run slonik or any other tool on AIX. All those 
> functions can happily live remote. Only slon and the backend modules 
> must work.

Right.  If we put all the infrastructure &c. in place to make these
distinctions (so, e.g. the build scripts need to make the
distinctions, and the INSTALL doc needs to outline it, &c.), then I
have no objection whatever to this strategy.  That way, you can write
it so it'll work if the larger set of dependencies is satisfied, and an
installer can still plan for installation on systems where satisfying
the larger set is a pain.
 
A

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