Re: Policy on pulling in code from other projects?

On 07/22/2011 05:00 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Arguments in favor of coding from scratch:
>
> 1) Does not introduce new dependencies into postgresql-client packages.
> (note how much of a problem Readline has been)

Readline has license issues, this doesn't.

>
> 2) keeps psql as lightweight as possible
>

Agreed on that one.

> 3) We don't need to be able to parse any potential URI, just the ones we
> accept.

True.

>
> Arguments against:
>
> a) waste of time coding a parser
>
> b) eventual feature creep as people ask us for more and more syntax support

Yep.

>
> Overall, though, I'd say that argument (1) against is pretty powerful.
> Count the number of complaints and build bug reports about readline&
> libedit on the lists.
>

That is a good argument.

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