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OK, excellent.<BR>
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On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:10 +0200, Gábor Melis wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Friday 30 September 2005 18:53, Robert L. Read wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'm not sure who owns Elephant right now, but I am about to complete</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> my postgres-backend extention. (I've got 7 tests out of 90 that are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> still failing, but should have those knocked out soon.)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> It took me three weeks and I estimated two; but I'm confident now</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that within two weeks I can have a complete, testable,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> well-documented system that let's you seemlessly migrate data between</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Berkeley DB and Postgres.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> So the real question is, should this be "fork" or elephant, with a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> new project name, or should it just be an elephant release? (I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> assume that the owner will of course want to code-review it before</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> making that decision,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> but I thought it better to keep everyone informed of what I'm doing.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Recall that one nice thing about PostGres is that it's licensing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> terms for someone building a public website are nicer than those of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Berkeley DB.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Great stuff. As to whether to fork or not, I'd say let's see the patch </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and then decide. Hopefully, the differences can be ironed out.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Gabor</FONT>
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