On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 13:04 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Ashesh Vashi
> >> <ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Dave,
> >>>
> >>> I needed to modify the configuration at quite a lot places to make it
> >>> work properly.
> >>> And, looks like the pgscript has not been compiled by anyone from long
> >>> time and I can say that because, it has been horribly broken.
> >>> If we're going to support the stand-alone pgscript application, we will
> >>> need to modify the code accordingly.
> >>> There are many changes done in the pgadmin3 code, which are shared by
> >>> pgscript. And, we've not taken care about pgscript affected areas.
> >>
> >>
> >> Honestly, I don't think we need to keep that there. pgScript was
> >> originally written as a GSOC project by Mickael Deloison, and later added to
> >> pgAdmin as a second project (iirc, Magnus mentored). We included the command
> >> line interpretor just to give it a home, but as it hasn't been touched since
> >> it was added and isn't used for anything it should probably go.
> >>
> >> Any comments Magnus, Mickael?
> >
> >
> > Wel, keeping it anywhere *else* is just going to make the problem even
> > worse. So the options are to either fix it, or to throw it out completely.
> >
> > I'm not against throwing it out completely - as you say, nobody seems to
> > have touched it in ages and ages. If we *do* want to keep it, we should make
> > it part of the main build so that we detect breakage *right away* and not
> > years later - much easier to fix that way.
>
> Thanks. I'm pro-ditching it.
>
FWIW, +1
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