Design Packaging Automation

[theory]

Design the SDK for building binary packages. This SDK must be usable in build nodes in the packaging service, and therefore support a wide variety of OS versions, Postgres versions, and hardware architectures. Build workers build packages for specific combinations of these variables, which are then published by to a cross-platform community packaging service.

• [x] #49
• [ ] CLI capabilities:
  • [ ] download, dependency resolution, build, install, bundle
  • [ ] Pipelines: PGXS, PGRX, Configure, etc.
• [ ] Platform support
• [ ] OS support
• [ ] Version management
• [ ] Dependency management
• [ ] Standard, cross-platform community packaging service

[theory]

POC: PGXN Binary Distribution Format

[theory]

Closing in favor of finer-grained issues. See the 🧳 Binary Packaging milestone.