| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: plPHP and plRuby |
| Date: | 2006-07-21 00:45:03 |
| Message-ID: | 44C0238F.2050705@commandprompt.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> And if that didn't convince you, I still got PL/sh in the wait ...
>
> It seems like there may be enough interest in PL/Ruby to justify
> including it in our distro, but after taking a look at the package
> I can see a couple of pretty serious objections:
>
> 1. Wrong license. Unless the author can be persuaded to relicense as
> straight BSD, this discussion is a waste of time.
As I mentioned previously, I have already negotiated for a relicense.
>
> 2. Coding style. The man does not believe in comments; do we really
> think anyone else is going to be able to maintain his work?
Yes, this was one of my concerns.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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