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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:02:46 -0500
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David Fetter <[email protected]> writes:
> In addition to the long-standing problem that there is no way to edit
> the SGML docs with any known GUI tool,

The point not in evidence is that there exists a GUI tool we'd accept
for editing XML-format docs.  Can you point to some that don't mess up
XML source code to the point of being unreadable?

> ... That Tom found
> a need to fork a document tool, i.e. take ownership of a whole large
> piece of software, that being what forking means, is a neon sign that
> means, "we're stuck with broken tools."

Um, I spend all day every day on making sometimes-comparable
improvements in Postgres.  Will you abandon Postgres as soon as
someone points out a(nother) serious performance bug in it?

As for "fork", I have no intention of forking anything --- that patch
is already submitted upstream.

			regards, tom lane

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