ports/189880: port pgpool-II out of date.

[Matthew Seaman]

On 15/06/2014 17:11, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> Heh.  I was just starting to look at writing a pgpool-II-33 port, but it
>> seems you have beaten me to it.
> 
> Well, and you provided a thorough review, thanks for that!
> 
> Now, who's in charge to merge all your recommendations ? Michelle ?

I'll happily work on getting this port committed -- certainly ping me
for technical review etc.  But I don't want to steal it from you if
you're keen to deal with committing it, or to take the port away from
Michelle given the work she's already put into it.

>>>>> Second step: merging the diverse set of pgpool related ports into one ?
>>>
>>>> Maybe pg-pool-II and pg-pool-devel...?  (3.1/2 in stable and 3.3 in
>>>> devel - until it changes?)
>>
>> pgpool-II has 3 stable releases at the moment 3.1.10, 3.2.8, 3.3.3
>> which are all still receiving updates.
> 
> Do you think that all three are still used by the ports users community ?

Well, to be pedantic about it: precisely one of those versions is in use
by ports users, as those other ports don't exist yet.  Whether there's a
demand for ports of all of those pgpool-II versions, or we should just
skip to the latest, is the real question.

Given the lack of history in the ports, I'd say lets just skip
pgpool-II-3.2 and upgrade the existing pgpool-II port to
pgpool-II-3.3.3.  The older pgpool-II ports (and pgpool-I for that
matter) could probably be deprecated now with a longish (say 6 month)
expiry time, but that's something for kuriyama@ to decide.

I don't think there's any particular reason to have ports of all the
different pgpool-II branches in tree, BICBW.  If there are major bits of
functionality dropped or changed incompatibly between those branches,
then obviously we'd have to reconsider.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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