Re: Caching driver on pgFoundry?

Oliver Jowett wrote:
> The "is it part of the driver or not" question is more of a
> maintenance issue than anything. If it is packaged separately it can
> be maintained more easily by whoever cares about it (you, Josh,
> whoever). If it's part of the driver you're going to run into the
> barrier that whenever it needs an update you will need to build
> consensus amongst the JDBC maintainers, which so far you don't have a
> very good record of doing.

How about making it a separate package, but offering a combined download
or jar with both packages on the drivers download page. And a README
including instructions on how to use / activate caching.

Like:

postgresql-8.2.506.jdbc4.jar

and

caching-123.jar

combined as:

postgresql-8.2.506.jdbc4.caching-123.jar

The only consensus needed would be who has to build and upload the
combined jar when one of the packages gets updated.

That would combine the benefits of having it obviously available for
anyone who downloads the driver (unlike a completly separate project on
an otherwise unrelated site), and keeping it separated for easy maintenance.

Till