Message-ID: <20040210022652.80342.qmail@web40605.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:26:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Need new project admin for unbundled Tcl interface libpgtcl?
To: L J Bayuk <ljb220@mindspring.com>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: karl@procplace.com, brett_schwarz@yahoo.com
In-Reply-To: <200402100148.i1A1msCE000407@mindspring.com>
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I don't quite understand why it has to be one way or
the other. Why don't you just ask for admin/update
proviledges, and get added to the project? That's what
I did when Karl started the project.

I believe there have already been some of the bug
fixes rolled in from the PG sources, from other
people.

One of the problems I see is that it was asked over a
year ago to separate libpgtcl from the core, and Karl
did that. But people continued to update the core
libpgtcl for some reason, I am not sure why.

Did you base your changes off of the Gborg project or
the libpgtcl that's still in the core?

I would welcome your changes into the gborg, but I
don't think there is any reason to create a new
project or change admins at this point. Just because I
don't have time now to make any updates, doesn't mean
I won't later...

--- L J Bayuk <ljb220@mindspring.com> wrote:
> It has now been over a year since the last beta
> release of the unbundled
> libpgtcl on gborg.postgresql.org.  This interface
> seems to have gotten
> itself stuck part-way towards unbundling.  Are the
> project admins still
> around (Brett Schwarz and Karl Lehenbauer)? From
> back in Nov 2002, I think
> the 1.4b3 code was release quality, but there wasn't
> much documentation.
> Now the code also needs to be resynchronized with
> fixes in the bundled
> libpgtcl.
> 
> If the current project admins don't want it, nobody
> else steps forward, and
> the PostgreSQL Group is still in favor of unbundling
> this interface, I
> would like to take over the project.  I've done some
> work on the code, and
> my own version is much further along than 1.4b3 on
> gborg. I have:
>     - Rolled in the PostgreSQL-7.4 (and later)
> fixes;
>     - Added new features: prepared queries, extended
> error codes,
>       transaction status, extended field attributes,
> backend parameters,
>       notice/warning message handlers, NULL value
> testing (these are
>       also in my pgin.tcl pure-Tcl interface);
>     - Various cleanups, fixes, finish conversion to
> Tcl objects;
>     - A Makefile for the free Borland C compiler to
> build a DLL for
>       Windows, which works with the latest
> ActiveState Tcl binary release;
>     - A test suite using tcltest;
>     - Made lots of progress on the Docbook
> documentation.
> 
> What do you think? Should the (former) admins step
> aside, and let me
> take over? Or do we give up and re-bundle it?


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