Peter Eisentraut wrote: > There seems to have been an accumulation lately of stuff that was simply > dumped into the source tree without any sort of integration. I am > particularly talking about interfaces/ssl and interfaces/libpqxx. No > doubt both of these things are useful in the end, but as they are right > now they're a headache waiting to happen. > > Could someone try to address the following issues? > > SSL: > > * A bunch of cryptic configuration files -- what do they do? > > * Weird shell scripts -- what do they do? > > * The shell scripts are written in a completely unportable fashion and > have inappropriate names (surely PostgreSQL isn't the only application in > the world that allows to "mkcert"). > > * They don't even belong into interfaces. > > * No build instructions, let alone a makefile.
I have requested info from the ssl author with no replies. Yank it from CVS or I will do the honors. > Libpqxx: > > * I'm no C++ whizz, but I guarantee that this coding style is not nearly > as portable as we've tried to make libpq++ be. Who wants to answer those > support calls all over again? > > * What's the deal with libpq++ vs. libpqxx? Who's going to want to > explain that to the crowd for the next 5 years? > > * Bogus Automake stuff -- hurts my eyes. ;-) > > * Doxygen -- is that going to be a quasi-required tool now? > > * Bonus points for documentation in DocBook format -- but unfortunately > version 4.1, and unfortunately not integrated with the rest of the > documentation set. > > * No build integration. > > * Why are half the text files executable? > > Personally, I'm uneasy about carrying around another interface library > that appears to have no basis in any sort of standard. The idea was that someone with more knowledge of PostgreSQL would integrate the new C++ interface into our build system. If it doesn't happen, we will yank it before 7.3. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
