Re: pgadmin3 on macOS "Mojave"

From: Jack Royal-Gordon <jackrg(at)pobox(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Bill Evans <bill(at)literacybridge(dot)org>, pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgadmin3 on macOS "Mojave"
Date: 2018-11-05 19:33:44
Message-ID: A2325C3F-3876-466A-8416-476069F90BCF@pobox.com
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Hi Dave,

Understood. I don’t think anyone expects you do that much work; I think we were just expecting/hoping it would be a recompile with a different switch sort of thing.

Jack

> On Nov 5, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Updating to 64bit would require a huge amount of work to first get the code working properly with wxWidgets 3, and then to move to Cocoa rather than Carbon.
>
> It’s not a good use of time given how unmaintainable (and out of date) that code has become - it’s definitely not something I have time to do I’m afraid. Time would be far better spend filling the remaining gaps in pgAdmin 4 (whatever they are - we’ve addressed the majority that were reported).
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> On 5 Nov 2018, at 17:47, Jack Royal-Gordon <jackrg(at)pobox(dot)com <mailto:jackrg(at)pobox(dot)com>> wrote:
>
>> +1 - thanks for the heads-up, Bill. I was just about to upgrade, but I guess I’ll hold off until they respond to this request.
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 5, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Bill Evans <bill(at)literacybridge(dot)org <mailto:bill(at)literacybridge(dot)org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded my Mac to the latest version of macOS. Now, when I run pgadmin3, I get a message that it needs to be recompiled, apparently for 64bit.
>>>
>>> Is there a plan to rebuild pgadmin3 for macOS Mojave?
>>>
>>> I know you’re rather bullish on #4, but it still isn’t up the the usability and usefullness of pgadmin3. It would be great to have the working pgadmin rebuilt for 64 bits while we wait for #4 to mature.
>>>
>>> (And, yes, pgadmin3 is indeed getting a bit long in the tooth, but it is still vastly more performant, and a much better UI than pgdamin4. #4 is pretty, though.)
>>

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