On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:02:30 Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 21:36:01 Dave Page wrote:
> >> If it's been around for a year, why hasn't it been
> >> submitted long ago so we could have rewritten and reviewed etc. in
> >> plenty of time?
> >
> > It's in the commit fest listing, and the discussion about which
> > programming language to port it to happened weeks ago.
>
> It was added to the commitfest page on December 5th, and links to an
> email from the day before. The only discussion on the language I can
> see in the linked thread is David Fetter offering to rewrite the code
> in perl.
Well, the is ultimately about the same discussion we are having now, except
that people are a lot more excited when you threaten to cancel the
project. ;-)