Re: Should pgAdmin 3 be saved?

2021年2月7日(日) 4:07 Gabriel Martin <grafik(dot)muzik(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> Hello,
>
> I know that since the launch of pgAdmin 4 in 2016, pgAdmin has been using
> a web-based model, as announced as early as 2014. You only need to do a
> little research on the Web to understand all the reasons behind this
> choice, which I do not seek to question.
>
> However, I wonder if it would be relevant to keep pgAdmin 3 alive. I'm not
> so much talking about improving the interface of pgAdmin 3, but simply
> about keeping the software functional in new systems. I tried to install it
> in the latest versions of Linux Mint and Ubuntu, but the software keeps
> bugging, which it didn't do in older versions of the same systems 5 or 6
> years ago.
>
> Do you think there's a possibility that people could fix pgAdmin 3, even
> if it means making a fork or whatever? Because, although pgAdmin 4 and
> other tools such as OmniDB and DBeaver are probably excellent, some people,
> for various reasons, might want to continue using pgAdmin 3 in 2021. I'm
> not an expert in the field, but I'm thinking that maybe someone here might
> be able to save this nice little application software from disappearing by
> investing a few days to maintain it.
>

FWIW there is a fork here which is making some attempt to keep it up-to-date
with recent PostgreSQL versions:

https://github.com/AbdulYadi/pgadmin3

Regards

Ian Barwick

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