Le Friday 07 March 2008, Christopher Browne a écrit :
> Glyn Astill <glynastill at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> >> Slony release when main devs think it is time to do, and as you
> >> said,
> >> perltools are not maintain by core-dev.
> >> I find them usefull for my first approach of slony and wish them to
> >> keep
> >> up-to-date, or *at least* to be sync with a specific release. So,
> >> looking at
> >> the slony 'roadmap', perhaps it can be better to push tools scripts
> >> to
> >> another place : a pgfoundry or a slony-tools-1.2.X.tar.
> >> Then, it let 'mature users' get the core, and other users get the
> >> contrib-tools wich are *sync* and released with slony versions.
> >>
> >> I prefer have to wget slony-1.2.13, slony-doc-1.2.13,
> >> slony-tools-1.2.13
> >> archives, but be sure they work all together. Than getting one
> >> package with
> >> doc from 1.2.12, tools between 1.1 and 1.2.12 and core from 1.2.13.
> >>
> >> It can consolidate them by releasing each part singly (even if at
> >> the same
> >> time).
> >>
> >> Views ?
> >
> > I've never used the perl tools, partially out of laziness and
> > partially out of not seeing the need. Instead I just write little
> > slonik scripts. Do they really save much time?
>
> The original point of the "altperl" scripts was as something of a
> crutch for people that were having a hard time wrapping their heads
> around the slonik language.
>
> Over time, some of Afilias' staff has progressed from valuing the
> altperl scripts to thinking them pointless because "slonik isn't that
> hard to write."  (I'm certainly in that camp, but I don't consider
> myself terribly representative since I have written quite a lot of
> code that generates slonik code! :-))


I agree with the altperl tools need. 

What about removing the tools from the main package (all tools, not only the 
perl) and putting them in a dedicated package ?

I explain: what about the slony1.2.14 , slony2.0 ? the docs are going to be 
*fully* updated ? the tools too ? 

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