On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 01:56:46PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: > > Separating this from the pytest thread: > > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 01:26:57PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > > The one > > > thing I know about that *I* think is a pretty big problem about Perl > > > is that IPC::Run is not really maintained. > > > > I don't see in https://github.com/cpan-authors/IPC-Run/issues anything > > affecting PostgreSQL. If you know of IPC::Run defects, please report them. > > If I knew of an IPC::Run defect affecting PostgreSQL, I likely would work on > > it before absurdity like https://github.com/cpan-authors/IPC-Run/issues/175 > > NetBSD-10-specific behavior coping. > > I'm not concerned about any specific open issue; my concern is about > the health of that project. https://metacpan.org/pod/IPC::Run says > that this module is seeking new maintainers, and it looks like the > people listed as current maintainers are mostly inactive. Instead, > you're fixing stuff. That's great, but we ideally want PostgreSQL's > dependencies to be things that are used widely enough that we don't > end up maintaining them ourselves.
That's reasonable to want. > I apologize if my comment came across as disparaging your efforts; > that was not my intent. It did not come across as disparaging.
