Thread: RE: New developer globe (was: Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.)
RE: New developer globe (was: Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.)
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Peter Mount
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That looks good. At least this time I'm the correct side of London :-) Peter -- Peter Mount Enterprise Support Maidstone Borough Council Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council. -----Original Message----- From: wieck@debis.com [mailto:wieck@debis.com] Sent: 12 October 1999 17:20 To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us Cc: vev@michvhf.com; wieck@debis.com; lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu; lamar.owen@wgcr.org; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org; jwieck@debis.com Subject: New developer globe (was: Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.) > > > > > Wow, that web page looks good now, with the quote at the bottom. Jan, > > > > we need the nicer world image. > > > > > > You mean one with the mountains - no? > > > > > > Well, I'll spend some time, polish up the Povray sources etc. > > > so Vince can easily maintain the map after - only that he > > > needs Povray 3.1 and maybe Tcl/Tk 8.0 to do it, but that > > > shouldn't be a problem since both are freely available and > > > easily to install. > > I have tcl 8.0.5 and povray here too. I've setup an example for the new developers page at <http://www.PostgreSQL.ORG/~wieck> The image size is adjusted for the page width. To maintain the hotspots I made a little, slightly overspecialized, Tcl/Tk application that creates the imagemap so it can easily be pasted into the page. I'll contact you and Vince via private mail after packing it up. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #========================================= wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) # ************