Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On fre, 2010-02-05 at 09:19 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > While I realize experienced people can easily navigate this confusion, > > I > > am concerned about new Postgres adopters being very confused by this > > and > > it is hurting our database adoption in general. > > > > What is really needed is for someone to take charge of one of these > > projects and make a best-of-breed Python driver that can gain general > > acceptance as our preferred driver. I feel Python is too important a > > language to be left in this state. > > The situation is unfortunate, but you might as well argue that too many > Linux desktops or Linux distributions confuse new users and hurt > adoption. These alternatives all exist for a reason, and it will be > difficult to get some of them to abandon their work with the aim of > reducing the overall "confusion".
Agreed, but can't we do a better job of steering new users and improving the novice experience for the most popular of them, i.e. think Ubuntu. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
