Re: pgAdmin licence

Dave Page wrote:
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>> for me the worst case already happened last year, when I had to fork my
>> own code to continue my job. As a consequence, I won't give away control
>> over sources any more for tools I release to the public, such as
>> www.pse-consulting.de/pg/pgImport.zip.
>>
>
> I find that an incredible claim. You stopped working on pgAdmin because
> a majority of the developers at the time thought there were tangible
> benefits from the use of wxGrid in the Query Tool over wxListCtrl.
No. You removed VC6 support, which was absolutely vital for me, without
ever asking whether that was viable. Since my development was tightly
integrated, I wasn't able to switch one of projects separately (at least
in the timeframe available).

> You
> couldn't produce a single provable technical reason why that was the
> case, except to say you didn't think it would work properly. Since then
> we haven't had a single bug reported that could be attributed to the use
> of wxGrid. In the UK we refer to that as throwing the toys out of the pram.
>
> I assume from what you say about your job however was that the real
> reason you didn't want those changes made was because you relied on the
> existing code for some extensions you had written for your own private
> use
Yes, but not the query tool nor any of its helper classes. The base
classes however are reused by several other projects, including pgImport.

Regards,
Andreas