From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Announce: Release of PyGreSQL version 3.0
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 00:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200010080402.AAA02394@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010072353490.9375-100000@hub.org>
> > Well, a third party author always has the option to release his code
> > separately on whatever timeline seems good to him. But I think that for
> > third-party code included in the distribution, the same standards ought
> > to apply as for the Postgres code itself: we don't want people sticking
> > alpha-quality code into a Postgres release tarball, whether it's core
> > functionality or not. It's not as if "no new features for a month" is
> > a particularly onerous standard to meet ;-)
>
> agreed about the alpha quality, but if someone like D'Arcy or Constantin
> releases a new version of their code, is there any reason to hold off on
> bringing that in? Haven't we done that in the past with pgaccess as it
> is? I seem to recall Bruce bringing in a new release of PgAccess close to
> the release, but am not 100% certain of this ...
Yes, that is true. I don't have a problem with 3rd party stuff that
does not install by default.
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