Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-23 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:05:46PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Did I miss part of a thread here? :) > > I don't think so. Josh was responding to my post, id > 19f22n-0007Gm-00. 'K, somehow I was missing whole threads, so went through arch

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:05:46PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Did I miss part of a thread here? :) I don't think so. Josh was responding to my post, id 19f22n-0007Gm-00. A -- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Liberty RMS Toro

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-22 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Did I miss part of a thread here? :) On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Josh Berkus wrote: > Andrew, > > > Arguments? None of those three address the obvious marketing benefit > > of having replication shipping with the main tarball, I know. > > Those are pretty strong arguments ... and we can't let Postgre

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, > Arguments? None of those three address the obvious marketing benefit > of having replication shipping with the main tarball, I know. Those are pretty strong arguments ... and we can't let PostgreSQL new "marketing awareness" sway us to the point that we start making technically unfea

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:19:34PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > I thought that now would be a good time to ask whether it should > live as a separate project, or whether it should be in contrib. I I have run into a number of arguments for putting the project on gborg. Unless I hear strong ar

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > - allows us to say that PostgreSQL ships with field-tested > > replication in the source tree > > > We have a winner! I think this one trumps all the rest. Can we say field-tested and Java in the same sentence? -- Bruce Momjian| http

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-16 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:35:38PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > > is this code really a "replacement" for rserv? There has been work on > > rserv in contrib that I'm guessing was not used in the commercial > > version. are we better off calling this rs

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:35:38PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > is this code really a "replacement" for rserv? There has been work on > rserv in contrib that I'm guessing was not used in the commercial > version. are we better off calling this rserv2 or something and letting > both projects stand s

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:23:21PM +0200, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > > pro contrib/: > > You have four pro arguments, two of which are for marketing and the > other two are for lazyness :-) For what it's worth, I don't think the marketing arguments are nothing. That view was confirmed by what I he

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-16 Thread greg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > - allows us to say that PostgreSQL ships with field-tested > replication in the source tree We have a winner! I think this one trumps all the rest. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200307160920 -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-16 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
> pro contrib/: You have four pro arguments, two of which are for marketing and the other two are for lazyness :-) > pro gborg: As you note, you will be more independent on gborg, so why not? Maybe a wish for some official mention of this - and other important - gborg project in the documenta

Re: [HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:19, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > pro contrib/: > - it's not that big, and since it's replacing code now there, it > won't bloat the tarball > > pro gborg: > - allows rserv to attain a separate release schedule, and there's > plenty of work to do on this code, so it may see

[HACKERS] Criteria for contrib/ versus gborg?

2003-07-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi all, As many of you know, PostgreSQL, Inc. has determined that Real Soon Now is the time to release their older version of eRServer as a contribution back to the rserv project. That Has Not Happened Yet, and I Do Not Speak For Them, and so on. But I have agreed to do some of the legwork for t