On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > IMHO it's not all that important where the source is developed (core > cvs, gborg etc) - whichever suits the development/release model best > shuold be used (meaning inside core only if it should be released on the > very same schedule as the main backend only). > > What is more important is the exposure of the released versions. I think > it should be possible (and fairly easy) for projects developed outside > the core to get included in the "official download page", meaning go on > the ftp site and mirrors. Today it seems ODBC and pgadmin3 go there, but > pretty much nothing else (not even JDBC?). Perhaps a good structure > there would allow more proejcts to get that kind of exposure, and be > easier to find.
I see no reaosn why projects can't be mirrored into the main ftp server, and brought through the mirrors ... > I quite often get people who claim "there is no this or that" for pgsql > when it's on gborg - simply becauase they didn't find it on the ftp > site. If you go looking, you'll find it on gborg, but if you don't know > where to look it can be hard. Especially for newcomers. ftp://gborg.postgresql.org/pub - ls everything is listed there ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
