Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze
Date: 2006-07-14 01:34:21
Message-ID: 20060713223113.G957@ganymede.hub.org
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> Second, its assuming that Thomas, or any other pl/java developer, *isn't*
>> going to watching for any changes to the API fairly closely, considering
>> they know it does happen, and, therefore, won't make a change to their
>> development code to accommodate that when the time comes ...
>>
> As we have explained before, there really isn't an API in any meaningful
> sense. Thomas will undoubtedly be vigilant, but the real danger is that
> something non-obvious will change and break stuff.

But, as Tom has already explained, *he's* not going to make changes
pl/java if its committed ... how many will even have java (or gcj) to even
test it to see if its broken?

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