On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:11:06AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > > * libpqxx is not integrated into build process nor docs. It should > > be integrated or reversed out before beta. > > I've requestsed that Jeorgen(sp?) move this over to GBorg ... its > something that can, and should be, built seperately from the base > distribution, along with at least a dozen other things we have bloating > the distribution now :( but at least that one hasn't been integrated yet > ...
Mentioning that on -hackers would have been nice -- I've spent a while this week hacking autoconf / Makefiles to integrate libpqxx... The problem I have with removing libpqxx is that libpq++ is a far inferior C++ interface. If we leave libpq++ as the only C++ interface distributed with PostgreSQL, there will be a tendancy for people using PostgreSQL & C++ to use the C++ support included with the distribution. Similarly, the Perl interface included with PostgreSQL is widely regarded as inferior to DBD::Pg. If we're going to start removing interfaces, I'd vote for the removal of perl5 & libpq++ as well as libpqxx. We can add a section to the documentation listing the available language interfaces (for languages like Python, where several interfaces exist, this would probably be a good idea anyway). Cheers, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
