Marko, I am one of the jdbc maintainers. That is why I posted this to the list as I did. I wanted to see if there was concensus on this issue one way or the other. In looking at your patch, I don't have any problems with it technically, but I would hate to have it applied, only to remove the entire functionality in the future (although I guess that doesn't really hurt anything).
I do appreciate you taking your time to put this patch together and submitting it. That is how open source projects work after all. I just want to make sure there is agreement that this is the right direction people want the jdbc driver to go. thanks, --Barry Marko Kreen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:23:13PM -0700, Barry Lind wrote: > >>I don't like this patch. If anything I think we should remove the >>dependency on ANT, not remove the dependency on make. >> >>By requiring ANT, we provide yet another hurdle for someone wanting to >>use JDBC with postgres. I would prefer that the build environment be >>the same for the database as for the jdbc code. >> >>Anything that makes it more difficult to download the source and get >>going with it is a negative in my opinion. And from my perspective >>requiring the download of an additional tool (ANT in this case) makes it >>more difficult. >> > > I have no strong feelings about current situation, I simply made > it more flexible. About changing it, you should consult JDBC > maintainers first, maybe they have some good reason why its > so... > > >>I already know that some binary distributions of postgres do not include >>JDBC simply because it is too complex to get ANT installed in their >>build environment. (complex perhaps isn't the right word, but it is more >>work than they are willing to put in for a small feature of postgres). >> > > JDBC driver is simply a .jar file, I think it should be more > easily downloadable from main website. (JDBC1/JDBC2 edition...) > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
