Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin III v1.0.0 Released
Le Lundi 29 Septembre 2003 12:10, Dave Page a crit : The OSX port is underway but is mainly being held up by problems with wxWindows as I understand it. We are in contact with the OSX developer for wxWindows and I believe things are moving along, but unfortunately I don't know much more than that. Jean-Michel, can you give Adam any more useful info? Dear Adam Witney and friends, pgAdmin3 is an internationalised product available in 28 languages. It is based on the wxWindows multi-platform environment available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOsX and other platforms. At the same time, pgAdmin3 is designed to query and display Unicode data stored in PostgreSQL (which is also Unicode compliant). As far as I understood, the port problem relies on the fact that that MacOsX is not natively and fully Unicode compliant. Presently, there are five possible solutions/workarounds: 1) Compile pgAdmin3 in non-unicode mode. In which case, pgAdmin3 port would be unable to display non-european languages and query PostgreSQL Unicode databases. 2) Use the iconv library linked against wxWindows in order to bring a Unicode abstraction layer to wxWindows. Julian, I had this idea in my sleep, is this a workable solution? 3) Wait for MacOsX 10.3 which should be Unicode compliant. We already discussed this opportunity, which does not fit our ideas because it would require MacOsX users to upgrade. 4) Use donated proprietary compilers in order to compile pgAdmin3 under MacOsX. My opinion is not to use proprietary software, but other members in the team are not agains this idea. This needs to be dicussed. 5) Compile pgAdmin as a fink package (http://www.fink.org). Maybe too complicated for MacOsX users. Could we discuss these opportunities? My opinion would be to go for 2), 1) and 4) and 5) in order of preference. What is the opinion of other members and contributors? 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])
Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin III v1.0.0 Released
Jean-Michel POURE wrote: 1) Compile pgAdmin3 in non-unicode mode. In which case, pgAdmin3 port would be unable to display non-european languages and query PostgreSQL Unicode databases. 2) Use the iconv library linked against wxWindows in order to bring a Unicode abstraction layer to wxWindows. Julian, I had this idea in my sleep, is this a workable solution? 3) Wait for MacOsX 10.3 which should be Unicode compliant. We already discussed this opportunity, which does not fit our ideas because it would require MacOsX users to upgrade. 4) Use donated proprietary compilers in order to compile pgAdmin3 under MacOsX. My opinion is not to use proprietary software, but other members in the team are not agains this idea. This needs to be dicussed. 5) Compile pgAdmin as a fink package (http://www.fink.org). Maybe too complicated for MacOsX users. Could we discuss these opportunities? My opinion would be to go for 2), 1) and 4) and 5) in order of preference. What is the opinion of other members and contributors? I like this order as well (with one caveat), although I think that #5 is unnecessary. Whatever method we use for compiling pgAdmin3, distribution will almost certainly be done as in binary form, so there will be no need to involve fink, which AIUI, is largely for compiling ported packages for Mac OS X. My caveat to the above order is that item #3, assuming we have no problem with the compiler, should be #1, since it offers us the oppurtunity to have a Unicode pgAdmin3 on Mac OS X. If there are philosophical problems with #3, then let's compile a non-unicode version, at least to get something to beta test. There's a pretty good chance that we're going to have bugs in the Mac version, since the last time I had pgAdmin3 running on the Mac, it crashed on startup. As soon as we decide which direction we want to go, I can contribute however much time is neccessary to get the port to work. ahp ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
