Re: [ppa-dev] remove slony support in PPA 5.0 ?

[Jehan-Guillaume (i. de R. <io...@fr...>]

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On 12/04/2010 02:54, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Sunday 11 April 2010 18:45:17 Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais wrote:
>> Hey devs,
>>
>> Last time I had a look on our current slony support it was pretty sad.
>> we support slony 1.0, that is by far deprecated now.
>>
>> Unfortunatly, considering this, I think we couldn't say anymore PPA
>> support Slony.
>>
>> Moreover, we talked with Robert Treat few weeks/months ago about the
>> current plugin architecture that was implemented for Slony. I really
>> think we should drop it as it is actually intrusive in some part of the
>> PPA code and lack some features (create a new node in the browser tree
>> as instance).
>>
>> So my proposal is
>> 1/ drop slony support
>> 2/ refactor our current plugin architecture
>> 3/ create a first and useful plugin to give people a live example. This
>> plugin could be slony itself obviously...1.2, 2.0 or both ;)
>>
>> Comments ? thoughts ?
> 
> I think that the current slony support actually would work against newer 
> slony's (the slony catalogs are pretty similar across versions). It might be a 
> little buggy, but it's currently that way now :-)

So we should test what is working and what is not and drop buggy parts
of the code.
It seems to me we are doing a bad publicity about PPA stability here :/

> That said, I'm content to leave it as is, but would be happy to add TODO items 
> for creating a new plugin architecture, and/or replacing the current slony 
> stuff with the new system, should anyone come along who wants to do it. 

Next GSoC or me sometime in the year :)
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