Dear all, Here are some issues:
1) PostgreSQL installer (wizard) http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh has released an OpenSSH minimal Cygwin installer. They have had 300.000 tracked downloads so far. If true, this numer is superior to Cygwin downloads itself. The installer is incompatible with Cygwin (as it installs a minimal Cygwin layer). They also provide a minimal configuration GUI.Is this the solution? I got in contact with the installer maintainer to ask the cons/pros of such a solution v.s. a pure Cygwin layer. For the moment, I still agree the solution is to create a wizard in pgAdmin2 2) My current work is stopped For the moment, I am too bust to work on pgAdmin2. This might last 1 or 2 weeks. Here is my personal to-do list. Feel free to pick-up any issue : - Handle two separate connexions (one for schema, another for data queries). The user should be able to define client_encoding for each connexion. - Work on PostgreSQL wizard. - Refine pseudo-alter trigger code (it was removed because unfinished). - Add pseudo ALTER DROP COLUM (this should not be difficult using pgSchema). I will be back soon with plenty of time. 3) KDE3 is marvelous I now use KDE3 which is a perfect environment. I tried writing some code in kDevelop. It seems possible to write code fast... Therefore I am still asking myself ***why***we should continue develop pgAdmin on Windows... To my humble opinion, KDE needs a real database abstraction layer (like pgSchema) with a multi-vendor interface. The only solution today is Gnome libgda. Unfortunately, libgda is not well-written. A good abstraction layer needs inheritence (C++, not C) and XML to handle specfic features of each database provider. Secondly, KDE3, Konqueror and KDevelop would probably welcome a pgAdmin port. This would immediatly give us hundred thousands of users. So why bother with Windows? Thirdly, qt3 applications can be compiled under Windows. And KDE3 is beeing ported to Windows using Cygwin. You can be sure it is not a year before we can use KDE3 under WIndows and MacOSX. Last of all, Microft is like a desease: if we do not fight them now, it will continue growing. So why work for them under Windows? Cheers, Jean-Michel ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
