Re: [HACKERS] Third Party Stuff

(I'm behind on my reading so I apoligize if this has already been
suggested.)

How about adding mailing lists pgsql-api and pgsql-api-digest?  In this
whay, whenever one of us writes a message giving information on an API, we
can simply mail a copy of it to the mailing list.  I know I have described
useful information a number of times about java-libpq but I've never
gotten around to putting the info in the mailing list. :(

Later on, the archives from this list could be used to write a fairly
comprehensive how-to.

On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 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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