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Re: Removing AddDepends; should I bother with a project?

This is a discussion on Re: Removing AddDepends; should I bother with a project? within the pgsql Hackers forums, part of the PostgreSQL category; --> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:22:49AM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > For the code sprint, ...


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Old 04-12-2008, 04:21 AM
David Fetter
 
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Default Re: Removing AddDepends; should I bother with a project?

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:22:49AM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> For the code sprint, I'm starting off by removing the projects from
> contrib which need to be removed by still have some usefulness. I'm
> not exactly sure what to do with adddepends, though. It seems
> unlike to lead an independant existance on pgFoundry; I'm inclined
> to just nuke it.
>
> For those of you who don't want to hunt through the archives, the
> reasons we're removing adddepends are:
>
> 1) Rod Taylor is not interested in maintaining it anymore;
> 2) It currently throws errors on 8.2 (and probably earlier);
> 3) With KL's improvements to pg_dump for 8.0, about half of its
> functionality is no longer necessary.
>
> So, speak up if someone thinks there's some reason to save
> adddepends anywhere other than the CVS and FTP archives.


As Ripley famously said:

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the
only way to be sure.

Cheers,
D
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