Re: [HACKERS] Third Party Stuff

On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Adrian Hall wrote:

> It seems what we need is someone to handle the organization of
> finding these third party utilities written for PostgreSQL and
> note something along the lines of
>
>     Title
>     Programming Language
>     Type (Library, Applications, Port, etc.)
>     Platform (Limit to platforms that PostgreSQL is known
>         to work on)
>     Author
>     Location
>     (Backup Locations)
>     Version of PostgreSQL it is written against
>     Precis of what it does
>     Reviews by people who have used it (perhaps)
>
> I'd be happy to volunteer for this, as tight as my time is right
> now; however, help is always welcome on this sort of thing, right?

    Unfortunately, a table like that is very difficult and time consuming
to maintain (it was tried once and fell seriously out o fdate *sigh*)...

    I've started up a more dynamic one that is available through the
web site...Christopher had mentioned improving that, but I imagine that time
for him is short lately too...I have no problems with someone submitting a
replacement to what is there now, that is based on a PostgreSQL backend
(ie. send me the table specs and forms/cgi's to run it)...

    Get that to a more professional level first, then add data into
it...but make it so that the data is easily added, so that not one person
has to maintain it

Marc G. Fournier                                 scrappy@hub.org
Systems Administrator @ hub.org              scrappy@freebsd.org

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