Re: www.pgaccess.org - the official story (the way I saw

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > From a PgSQL Project standpoint, pgaccess has always been included as a
> > way of increasing the overall distribution of the package as a valid GUI
> > interface ... all that has ever happened in the past is that when a new
> > release came out from Teo, Bruce has generally downloaded it and replaced
> > what we had in CVS ... there were no patches involved ... I don't see why
> > that has to change, does it?
>
> Ideally I think there should be only one master CVS copy of pgaccess ---
> either that should be the one in the postgresql.org tree, or we should
> remove pgaccess from postgresql.org and let it become a standalone
> project with its own CVS someplace else. I know that right now, there
> are some changes in the postgresql.org tree that are not in Teo's tree,
> because I made some 7.2 fixes there last summer (having forgotten that
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> our sources were not the master copy). This is not good, but it'll
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> keep happening if there are multiple CVS trees.

[ Just catching up.]

Actually, the PostgreSQL CVS tree is the master pgacces source since Teo
stopped working on it. I used to pass patches back to him but at one
point he told me that we should maintian the master copy.

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