From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200701252213.l0PMDSH29937@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: ruby-postgres module needs work, maintainer
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To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:13:28 -0500 (EST)
CC: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 15:18 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > ruby-postgres != plruby
> > 
> > Oops, sorry.  I got confused.  I also have not heard from the
> > ruby-postgres guy, but as a community we are less likely to have heard
> > from him because interfaces are more independent.
> > 
> 
> I finally did reach the ruby-postgres guy. He said he would incorporate
> my patches. 
> 
> I'd like a real release (that becomes a gem), because the current ruby-
> postgres release is not sufficient (in a number of ways), and I got at
> least one response from someone who literally skipped PostgreSQL support
> in their app because of it:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/450c15cb3848129b
> 
> I expect there will be more patches also. Hopefully we can get this up
> to speed.
> 
> I've been informed that the Ruby community's gem releases are heavily
> dependent on rubyforge. Without involvement of the rubyforge ruby-
> postgres project, releases would have to be under a different name
> (which would mean changing client code -- not desirable). This is my
> understanding, anyway.

Good, sounds like things are moving forward.

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