On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Rod Taylor wrote: > We have the current issue of people not knowing that projects like > pgadmin exist or where to find the jdbc drivers.
Agreed ... but makign one big META package isn't going to fix that ... as someone else suggested, put a README file in the contrib directory that points ppl to projects.postgresql.org ... > These basic components (and others a large segment uses that are well > maintained) should go through a release cycle with the -core including > the platform test/report phase and be prominently listed in the > downloads area and documentation areas -- just as we do for PostgreSQL > proper. *ack* ... now the beta cycle just quadrupled in length ... so we develop for 4 months, and beta for a year while we make sure everyone else's packages work with the -core? Most DBAs that I know will not upgrade based on a .0 release on a production system ... they will wait for at least a .1 release ... between .0 and .1 is when projects like PgAdmin should be doing their testing to make sure that they are good for the new major release ... > Goto http://postgresql.org, now track down the jdbc drivers or how to > use them. To a significant portion of our users this is more important > than CREATE FUNCTION is and in 7.5 jdbc documentation will be much more > difficult to find, but no less important than it used to be. Now, out of all of the PostgreSQL users, what % are using JDBC? What % are using ODBC? What percentage of those using JDBC are also using ODBC? What % of those using PgAdmin are also using ODBC? For that matter, how many ppl using JDBC only want to download the .jar file itself, and not the source code? % of Binary-Only PgAdmin users? ODBC driver? The point of projects.postgresql.org is that if someone *is* looking for an addon, they should be pointed to projects.postgresql.org ... if you try and merge everything into the -core distribution, you are either going to miss something that *someone* wants to use at some point, *or* one helluva large tar file to download ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(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
