Re: Removing AddDepends; should I bother with a project?

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:22:49AM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> For the code sprint, I'm starting off by removing the projects from
> contrib which need to be removed by still have some usefulness.  I'm
> not exactly sure what to do with adddepends, though.   It seems
> unlike to lead an independant existance on pgFoundry; I'm inclined
> to just nuke it.
> 
> For those of you who don't want to hunt through the archives, the
> reasons we're removing adddepends are:
> 
> 1) Rod Taylor is not interested in maintaining it anymore;
> 2) It currently throws errors on 8.2 (and probably earlier);
> 3) With KL's improvements to pg_dump for 8.0, about half of its 
> functionality is no longer necessary.
> 
> So, speak up if someone thinks there's some reason to save
> adddepends anywhere other than the CVS and FTP archives.

As Ripley famously said:
   I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.  It's the   only way to be sure.

Cheers,
D
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