Re: Need comments about -jdbc packaging

Hi Devrim,

I'm not the expert here by any means; I only just got interested in this
project when moving from ant to maven became something new and fun to try
to put together. So, feel free to take my opinion for what it is-- just an
opinion.

After some research, I found this thread awhile back which might contain
helpful information:
http://postgresql.nabble.com/Release-for-9-5-td5873644.html

In short, it says that the team does not want to use postgresql's version
number in the artifacts. This would explain why the current releases of
pgjdbc are not prefixed with 9.5, and are still at 9.4. It is my guess
that the numbering of pgjdbc will stay on 9.4 for some time. But, I think
this is sufficient evidence that having a hard dependency on a postgres
major version is something that is not needed. So, I think I agree with
your assessment. If you wanted a second opinion, Dave Cramer might be the
best person to comment.

Additionally, I can verify that the if-block's make sense in the combined
spec-file. I tried one of your pre-release specfiles on EL6 and had issues
with "add_maven_depmap", "%files -f .mfiles", and the 2 "_javadir" files.
I think the if-blocks are clean, and I approve your new changes with regard
to making a combined specfile.

Regards,
-John

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> While working on a unified -jdbc package, I noticed that we have
> PostgreSQL major number appended to package name, version, jar file,
> etc.
>
> Do we really need that? This package does not depend on PostgreSQL, so
> I think we can remove it.
>
> Attached is the spec file that I intend to push later tonight to git,
> so that we can ship this package along with tomorrow's releases.
>
> This package has some comment improvements and conditionals for unified
> spec file...
>
> Regards,
> --
> Devrim GÜNDÜZ
> Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
> Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR
>
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