Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Huxton
Mark Woodward wrote: I don't understand what you mean by PostgreSQL trying to be neutral. Postgres focuses on what it's good at, being a database. It's not really for or against anything. The PostgreSQL team is not interested in maintaining code that so clearly falls outside of the scope. Tha

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-31 Thread Mark Woodward
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Mark Woodward wrote: > >> It gets so frustrating sometimes, it isn't so black and white, there are >> many levels of gray. The PostgreSQL project is trying so hard to be >> neutral, that it is making itself irrelevant. > > We are making ourselves irrelevant because we encoura

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-31 Thread Mark Woodward
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:35:15PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: >> It gets so frustrating sometimes, it isn't so black and white, there are >> many levels of gray. The PostgreSQL project is trying so hard to be >> neutral, that it is making itself irrelevant. >> >> Designing and including features

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-31 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm one of the 'foundry admin team', and I can definitely state that we have been accepting projects as ppl are proposing them ... as to gborg->pgfoundry, the only thing that has been holding that up is that the two systems are not compatible at the DB end of things, so

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 16:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Robert Treat wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Mark Kirkwood said: Mark Woodward wrote: There should e a big huge button and/or link to pgfountr

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 30 January 2006 16:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> Mark Kirkwood said: > >>> Mark Woodward wrote: > There should e a big huge button and/or link > to pgfountry that shows how m

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Secondly, if there is a "large group of users" who want this, why doesn't someone do it? Any one of them could take the source, and produce a bundle (say a PostgresPHP Plus Pack) that has all the features you think should be in there. If they can demonstrate they can maintain it, perhaps the pos

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:35:15PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: > It gets so frustrating sometimes, it isn't so black and white, there are > many levels of gray. The PostgreSQL project is trying so hard to be > neutral, that it is making itself irrelevant. > > Designing and including features that

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Robert Treat wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Mark Kirkwood said: Mark Woodward wrote: There should e a big huge button and/or link to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Mark Woodward wrote: It gets so frustrating sometimes, it isn't so black and white, there are many levels of gray. The PostgreSQL project is trying so hard to be neutral, that it is making itself irrelevant. We are making ourselves irrelevant because we encourage the use

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Mark Woodward
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: >> > Postgres generally seems to favor extensibility over integration, and >> I >> > generally agree with that approach. >> >> I generally agree as well, but. >> >> I think there is always a balance between "out of the box" vs >>

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: > > Postgres generally seems to favor extensibility over integration, and I > > generally agree with that approach. > > I generally agree as well, but. > > I think there is always a balance between "out of the box" vs > "extensibi

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:25:39AM +0100, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > >On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>Mark Kirkwood said: > >> ... > >>A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will > >>download, build and install module foo for

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:01:58PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > > >Michael Fuhr wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>> > A nicer i

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Wiles
On 30 Jan 2006 11:35:13 -0500 Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> CPAN modules, Ruby gems, PgFoundry ingots? :) > > >>> > > >> > > >> Tusks? (Extensions of the elephant.) > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > Trunks? > > > > Dung? > > > > gives a whole new meaning to the term "pa

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:01, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > > > Michael Fuhr wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>> > A nicer idea

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:25, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Josh Berkus wrote: > > >Andrew, > > > > > > > >>A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that > >>will > >>download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish > >>many > >>many modules on pgfoundry,

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Michael Fuhr wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will download, build and install module foo for you.

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Michael Fuhr wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will download, build and install module foo for you. CPAN modules, Ruby

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Josh Berkus wrote: Andrew, A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish many many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and installing them would be trivial. pgxs should ma

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:25:39AM +0100, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > >Actually I don't think it would be all that hard. You just need to have > >each project produce an xml file with bits of package information (name, > >dependencies, version info, etc...) which could then be combined with all > >

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Robert Treat wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Mark Kirkwood said: >> ... A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish many many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, > A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that > will > download, build and install module foo for you. Then we could publish > many > many modules on pgfoundry, their authors could look after them, and > installing them would be trivial. pgxs should make such a thing

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:23, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Mark Kirkwood said: > > Mark Woodward wrote: > >> There should e a big huge button and/or link > >> to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. > > > > While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web site, I agree that > > m

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will > >download, build and install module foo for you. > > CPAN modules, Ruby gems, PgFoundry ingots? :) Tu

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:23 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: A nicer idea would be something like a utility could we ship that will download, build and install module foo for you. CPAN modules, Ruby gems, PgFoundry ingots? :) Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Mark Kirkwood said: > Mark Woodward wrote: > >> There should e a big huge button and/or link >> to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. >> > > While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web site, I agree that > making (particularly) Pgfoundry more prominent would be a good id

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Woodward wrote: There should e a big huge button and/or link to pgfountry that shows how much is availale to PostgreSQL. While there are links to 'em mentioned on the web site, I agree that making (particularly) Pgfoundry more prominent would be a good idea. Mark, do you want to sugge

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
> David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I also think this would make a great pgfoundry project :) > > Yeah ... unless there's some reason that it needs to be tied to PG > server releases, it's better to put it on pgfoundry where you can > have your own release cycle. > I don't need pfoundry,

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 1/29/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I generally agree as well, but.I think there is always a balance between "out of the box" vs"extensibility." I think integration and extensibility is fantastic foraddaptation of your product, but "oobe" (out of box experience) is important fo

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
> > > Mark Woodward wrote: > >>XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually nothing >>about content. Content requires custom parsers. >> >> > > Really? Strange I've been dealing with it all this time without having > to contruct a parser. What you do need is to provide event handl

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Mark Woodward wrote: XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually nothing about content. Content requires custom parsers. Really? Strange I've been dealing with it all this time without having to contruct a parser. What you do need is to provide event handlers to a str

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also think this would make a great pgfoundry project :) Yeah ... unless there's some reason that it needs to be tied to PG server releases, it's better to put it on pgfoundry where you can have your own release cycle. regards, t

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:04:47PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: > > [removing -patches since no patch was attached] This sounds highly > > specialised, and probably more appropriate for a pgfoundry > > project. > > XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually > nothing about conte

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Woodward
> > [removing -patches since no patch was attached] > This sounds highly specialised, and probably more appropriate for a > pgfoundry project. > > In any case, surely the whole point about XML is that you shouldn't need > to contruct custom parsers. Should we include a specialised parser for > evey

Re: [HACKERS] Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
[removing -patches since no patch was attached] Mark Woodward wrote: I have a fairly simple extension I want to add to contrib. It is an XML parser that is designed to work with a specific dialect. I have a PHP extension called xmldbx, it allows the PHP system to serialize its web session dat