| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: plPHP and plRuby |
| Date: | 2006-07-17 17:45:23 |
| Message-ID: | 1153158323.5450.8.camel@localhost |
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On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:11 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On the other hand, if we include PL/Perl, Tcl and Python but exclude Ruby
> from the main package we are effectively making a statement to Ruby users
> that their language is inferior in our consideration.
Hardly -- no more so than not including JDBC and PL/Java in the main CVS
is evidence that we're all Java haters. The fact that we include
PL/Perl, PL/Python and PL/Tcl is more a matter of momentum/historical
accident than an expression of preference, IMHO.
> However, the lack of a maintainer who is an active participant in the
> community is a serious drawback
Well, if the author is interested in maintaining PL/Ruby as part of the
postgresql.org CVS tree (is he?), I think that is sufficient. Whether he
"participates in the community" beyond maintaining PL/Ruby is not really
relevant, IMHO.
(FWIW, I'd be fairly comfortable hacking on PL/Ruby, as I have some
prior experience with Ruby and its C API.)
-Neil
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