[Pljava-dev] Ongoing Development (funding): 8.4, Java 6 and beyond

Hi Johann,

As Lucas said last week, we'll need an official release if the major
repositories are to accept an 8.4 version. Is this something that can
happen now?

My personal needs were fixed temporarily by Lucas' binary, but I would
feel *much* more comfortable if an official binary was in the major
respositories.

In terms of Ubuntu at least, pljava is already several releases behind
the times. The mismatch in versions means that there hasn't been a
functioning pljava for several releases now, and Maverick is just days
away from launch. With the release and gradual adoption of PG9, things
are getting even more desperate.

I guess there is the possibility of getting modest funds from my lab,
but I couldn't begin to ask for money until a firm plan with milestones
was in place. What sort of ballpark are we talking here? Hours, days,
weeks or months? It sounds to me like we're just a few hours away from
8.4 support, but what about 9?

Cheers

Peter

On 4/10/10 7:14 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> Dear pljava-dev,
>
> As you may have noticed I ported the 1.4 source tree for 8.4 in a way
> that "works for me" before I came across this mailing list and saw
> that the CVS may have some support already.
>
> That effort took about 2-3 hours so I'm not crying over a time wasted.
>
> I am now in a position to work more or less full time on pljava if I
> have some funding to do so. How and where to get such funding is
> something I don't really know so please come forward with ideas if you
> can.
>
> There are plenty of ways in which it can be improved. The Java code
> needs to be updated, my 8.4 changes made it incompatible with 8.3.
> Asserting that it works for different platforms than just Linux and
> Windows (Solaris and FreeBSD come to mind). Perhaps do not rely on
> GCC. Create binary packages for the major repositories and/or work
> with Postgres package maintainers. And so on and so on.
>
> Please let me know if you have some immediate needs and I can perhaps
> fulfill them.
>
>
> Johann
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