On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 15:41:55 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > It's certainly ok to upload it, but from what I see this library isn't > actually used by any packages in Debian. Are there other reasons why this > library would be important to include in a stable release, if there's no > software depending on it?
Currently, the only C++ interface library for PostgreSQL in sarge is libpqpp-dev. Its API is quite ancient and does not fit well with current C++ practice. PostgreSQL upstream encourages C++ developers to switch to libpqxx as it has an API that fits much better with current C++ practice; as such it would be a shame not to have it readily available in sarge. http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/05/11/1720258.shtml?tid=24&tid=46 offers a nice introduction to libpqxx. Disclosure: libpqxx's author is a good friend of mine and I've done some auto*-related work on libpqxx. Ray -- Gartner is what you get when you pipe statistics through consultants. - jtv
