ports/189880: port pgpool-II out of date.

Michelle Sullivan michelle at sorbs.net
Mon Jun 16 08:24:20 UTC 2014


Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 15/06/2014 22:49, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>   
>> Personally I think:
>>
>> databases/pgpool (3.1.x)
>> databases/pgpool-devel (3.3.x)
>>     
>>>> Given the lack of history in the ports, I'd say lets just skip
>>>> pgpool-II-3.2
>>>>         
>> Agreed. (effectively already done)
>>     
>
> Except that pgpool-II-3.3.3 is a stable release version, and not what
> would normally be considered a 'development' version.   In principle for
> anyone wanting to install pgpool-II for the first time the choice should
> be to use version 3.3.3.  I think there's a 3.4 branch that would
> qualify for pgpool-II-devel if anyone wanted to write that port.  Also,
> the established name does seem to be 'pgpool-II' despite the 'II' being
> an ersatz version number.
>   

It caught me out on more than one occasion (and I should know better)
> However, this is orthogonal to getting 3.3.3 into the tree in the first
> place.  Why don't we proceed with adding a databases/pgpool-II-33 port
> now, and deal with indicating which one is the default and whether some
> of the older versions should be removed as a separate item later?
>
>   
That was the reason I added it as a new port ;-)

Michelle

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