Re: [Pljava-dev] odd error with 1.5.0-snapshot

On 02/03/16 16:38, Frédéric OLIVIE wrote:
> Whatever is the offical answer by distrib maintainers, José's
> question seems very legit.

If I'm reading this right, you have replied to John's message about
a use-after-error exception (the only place I remember saying anything
about "official"), but you are mostly interested in improving the
availability of prebuilt binaries. I agree, José's question is
completely legit. Prebuilt binaries simplify setting up PL/Java,
and ideally, those should be easy to get.

> While you guys are struggling for PL/Java to be integrated in distribs,

As you saw in John's earlier message (the one where he was replying to
José), 'struggling' might be too strong a word. Devrim is ready to have
prebuilt binaries for you, at least for every Linux flavor that uses rpm,
just as soon as we have an official release. That's one short beta period
away.

The same ought to be true for the linux flavors using apt, though I think
Devrim is not part of that team and I'll probably have to send a ping
there myself to make sure they know the release is coming up.

Ok, Windows and OS X. Those are not really my element. I am trying
to absorb information here about what will be considered a convenient
way to install on those platforms. The postgresql.org download page
plugs the EnterpriseDB graphical installer for both of those platforms,
and it (IIUC) comes with a thing called StackBuilder to automate the
installation of known extensions. I think Dave Page is the person I
need to contact about what's needed for StackBuilder to know about
PL/Java 1.5.0.

> Which is totally unfair in view of you guys amazing (and successful) job >
to give it a second breath !

This is my favorite part of your message, and I am glad that you think
the progress has been significant and notable. To keep a project vigorous,
you do need easy availability, and you also need enough advancement in
function to keep people interested. The advancement part I think we have,
and the easy-availability part still has some catching up to do. I think
that was the necessary order, because to keep the workload manageable,
some of the work has to be done by different people. There are already
people like Devrim with the infrastructure set up to build packages
and they're good at it, and the packages they build will be most easily
accepted by cautious sysadmins because they will be from a known repo
with a recognized signing key. And for that to happen, the main requirement
is to provide a package worth building. Have you tried the beta yet? :)

Thanks,
-Chap
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