Hi Folks, long time no hear! And well, this is a one-time only contact, I'm not going to re-join the pgAdmin community (not even subscribed to the list). The intention of my mail is to bring Admin4 ( http://www.admin4.org ) to your attention, maybe show new perspectives and eventually attract fellow developers.
Back in those old days, I thought pgAdmin sources might be the base for more administrative tools, but that's actually not too easy since the extension mechanisms weren't included by design but added later. I dreamt of including a Python scripting engine, which never happened either. So over the past years, when I was in urgent need for a management tool for specific type of (non-public) server, I created a tool from scratch that is meant to offer maximum flexibility and extensibility, Admin4. It is extensible on different levels: modules (different types of servers), nodes (different objects in servers), panels/menus/tools (added features to nodes), and more; all without configuration or modification of existing files, just by adding some files. Of course, it's multi-platform (Python/wxPython) and open source (Apache2). It gained some more modules: aside from the first undisclosed module, it offers LDAP and BIND/DNS modules, and lately a PostgreSQL module. In contrast to LDAP and DNS modules, the PostgreSQL module hasn't reached the feature-complete status; I'm coding just what I currently need, but what's mostly missing is support of some more node types and editing of them; the boring stuff ;-) IMHO very usable is the query tool and the data tool, both having some helpful non-trivial features other tools don't have. The Admin4 core itself is quite stable, infrastructure (website, sourceforge, github) including secure online update is settling. I assume the most people interested in stuff like Admin4 would be lurking around here, so if you'd like to have a peek, check it out! Regards, Andreas -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers