Re: pgAdmin4 - Issue of unmaintained libraries

Hi

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> As we are heavily dependent on 3rd party JS libraries and some of them are
> no longer actively maintained by their respective authors (Last commit was
> approximate year ago).
>
> Some of the core libraries which are no longer actively maintained are,
> - Backbone <https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/releases>
> - wcDocker <https://github.com/WebCabin/wcDocker/releases>
> - aciTree <https://github.com/dragosu/jquery-aciTree/releases>
> - Backgrid <https://github.com/cloudflare/backgrid/releases>/Backform
> - jQuery 1.x <https://github.com/jquery/jquery/releases/tag/1.12.4>
> version
>
> What would be our future plans when it comes to fixing the issues in the
> core libraries or adding new feature?
> (Ref: Email thread
> <https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKKotZSdDt891jVAnjjpq2uXyKaNFcVh0o4boL-gu6yGTTk8OA%40mail.gmail.com>
> )
>

Well jQuery can be updated can't it?

wcDocker is, as far as I'm aware, the only library of it's kind. Unless
something else has surpassed it in the last couple of years, there's
nothing even close in functionality to it. aciTree was in a similar
position, though Joao and team think there may be other candidates now.

As for Backbone/Backgrid/Backform, I don't know. Backbone could maybe be
replaced with React eventually. Not sure about the others.

In any case, this is likely to be a problem on an ongoing basis - and I
think we need to consider the future on a case by case basis when
necessary. It may mean moving to a different library, or it may mean
forking components, or it may be the upstream may have not had any commits
for a long time simply because there is no development happening right now,
but bugs may still be fixed.

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