Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:33:12 +0100
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:53:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > ... I would also expect that depending on an external package
> > would provoke significant opposition. If we suck the code into core,
> > then we have to keep it up to date with the upstream, which is a
> > significant maintenance burden - look at all the time Tom has spent on
> > snowball, regex, and time zone code over the years.
> 
> Also worth noting is that we have a seriously bad track record about
> choosing external packages to depend on.  The regex code has no upstream
> maintainer anymore (well, the Tcl guys seem to think that *we* are
> upstream for that now), and snowball is next door to moribund.
> With C not being a particularly hip language to develop in anymore,
> it wouldn't surprise me in the least for any C-code JSON parser
> we might pick to go dead pretty soon.

Given jq's extreme popularity and compatible license, I'd nominate that.

Best,
David.
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