Re: JDBC 4 Compliance

From: Vitalii Tymchyshyn <tivv00(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adam Gray <agray(at)polarislabs(dot)com>
Cc: Bryan Varner <bvarner(at)polarislabs(dot)com>, Mike Fowler <mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com>, PG-JDBC Mailing List <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: JDBC 4 Compliance
Date: 2013-06-29 19:33:33
Message-ID: CABWW-d2+Y-sXfh6Xy-U=gChKy4Yqpo9jUixkotuUMXzadH++BA@mail.gmail.com
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-1 for qualifiers. You will have problems deploying java docs/sources for
two versions under single artifact name.
27 черв. 2013 17:32, "Adam Gray" <agray(at)polarislabs(dot)com> напис.

> I think if you're looking to differentiate in the maven naming, you'd
> probably want to use a qualifier instead of changing the artifact id.
> Using the qualifier, you can leave the stable driver as is and only add an
> "experimental" qualifier to the unstable new builds.
> ________________________________________
> From: pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]
> on behalf of Mike Fowler [mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:20 AM
> To: Dave Cramer
> Cc: Bryan Varner; List
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] JDBC 4 Compliance
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 27/06/13 14:30, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > I am coming to the conclusion that I should let new blood take over the
> > postgresql driver. My lack of personal resources seems to be standing in
> > the way of significant progress.
> >
> > Anyone interested in taking this on ?
> >
>
> I'm happy to help in this but might I suggest that rather than a single
> individual take over that we get a group together? From the discussions
> and list activity over the last little while I think there are a few
> candidates but I do not wish to volunteer anyone for fear of missing and
> offending people. Unless you really wish to step away from the JDBC, I'd
> suggest you retain leadership and if you do wish to depart I'd ask that
> you stay around and assist us in the transition.
>
> The recurring plan that seems to be developing is to maintain the
> current driver focusing on it's stability and compatibility. Going
> forward the energy and focus would be towards a new driver which is
> liberated from the concerns of backwards compatibility. Both sides of
> the recent discussion have merits. Having recently moved on from an
> employer where stability is king I was dealing with JDK 3 on occasion.
> Incidentally, part of why I have moved on is that I do wish to do new
> things!
>
> Having already volunteered to work on getting the existing driver into
> Maven I see the easiest way is to introduce two new artifact IDs.
> Currently the artifact ID is simply postgresql but there is no reason we
> couldn't use 'stable' and 'experimental' (experimental is the best I
> could come up with off the top of my head!).
>
> Long term we'll have to see whether we want to maintain two codebases.
> For now let's experiment and see how things progress. There are pros and
> cons to both codebases, neither are perfect. With that in mind this is
> open source and people are free to do their own thing but there is
> strength in numbers. We obviously all care about PostgreSQL and it's
> JDBC driver so let us all try and make the best JDBC driver(s) possible!
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Mike Fowler
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>
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