postgresql-jdbc packaging

Palle Girgensohn girgen at pingpong.net
Mon Feb 14 01:19:32 PST 2005



--On måndag, februari 14, 2005 11.15.36 +0200 Panagiotis Astithas 
<past at ebs.gr> wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm maintaining the postgresql-jdbc port.
>>
>> One thing I've considered, but not come to any conclusion about, is
>> whether the port should register somehow which version of JDBC it has
>> built, JDBC1, JDBC2 or JDBC3. There's even a JDBC2 + EE variant... Which
>> version is built depends on which JDK was used to build it. jdk1.1 =>
>> JDBC1, jdk1.2-1.3 => JDBC2, and jdk1.4+ => JDBC3. Hence, very few would
>> want JDBC1 nowadays, I suppose. The only package built by the package
>> cluster now is for JDBC1, which kind of sucks a bit :)
>>
>> To fix this, the right way is to create a bunch of slave ports, on for
>> each type as per above. Then, the package building cluster would build
>> all version. The slave ports would set JAVA_VERSION=1.1 and 1.2
>> respectively, and the main port could install the greatest version.
>> PKGNAMESUFFIX would be set to jdbcN.
>>
>> Is this just overkill? If most of you use the port anyway, it probably
>> is, but if ppl tend to use prebuilt packages, they will end up with a
>> somewhat crippled JDBC1 jar even if they run jdk-1.5, so then it might
>> be worth it.
>>
>> I slimmer way is to just let the package name reflect which version has
>> been built, but not bother to create slave ports.
>>
>> Any opinions? What do you think, is it worth the effort?
>>
>> /Palle
>>
>> (See <http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html> for info on different
>> versions of PostgreSQL's JDBC.)
>
> As someone who was bitten by this, I believe package users should have
> some sort of warning sign. I don't mind what the solution will be, as
> long as a regular "pkg_add -r foo" can work as expected. Is this possible
> with the "slimmer" approach?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Panagiotis

With the slimmer approach, pkg_add will install postgresql-jdbc1, 
explicitally. With the fatter approach, there will be three packages to 
chose from, one each for jdbc{1,2,3}.

/Palle



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