On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:32:39AM +0200, Catalin Iacob wrote: > I do have a real concern about the long term attractiveness of the > project to new developers, especially younger ones as time passes. > It's not a secret that people will just avoid creaky old projects, and > for Postgres old out of fashion things do add up: autoconf, raw make, > Perl for tests, C89, old platform support. I have no doubt that the > project is already loosing competent potential developers due to this. > One can say this is superficial and those developers should look at > the important things but that does not change reality that some will > just say pass because of dislike of the old technologies I mentioned. > Personally, I can say that if the project were still in CVS I would > probably not bother as I just don't have energy to learn an inferior > old version control system especially as I see version control as > fundamental to a developer. I don't feel the balance between > recruiting new developers and end user benefits tilted enough to > replace the build system but maybe in some years that will be the > case.
What percentage of our adoption decline from new developers is based on our build system, and how much of it is based on the fact we use the C language? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription +
