On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:11 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > On the other hand, if we include PL/Perl, Tcl and Python but exclude Ruby > from the main package we are effectively making a statement to Ruby users > that their language is inferior in our consideration.
Hardly -- no more so than not including JDBC and PL/Java in the main CVS is evidence that we're all Java haters. The fact that we include PL/Perl, PL/Python and PL/Tcl is more a matter of momentum/historical accident than an expression of preference, IMHO. > However, the lack of a maintainer who is an active participant in the > community is a serious drawback Well, if the author is interested in maintaining PL/Ruby as part of the postgresql.org CVS tree (is he?), I think that is sufficient. Whether he "participates in the community" beyond maintaining PL/Ruby is not really relevant, IMHO. (FWIW, I'd be fairly comfortable hacking on PL/Ruby, as I have some prior experience with Ruby and its C API.) -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings