[ANN] PostgreSQL for Mac Project
[ANN] PostgreSQL for Mac Project
- Subject: [ANN] PostgreSQL for Mac Project
- From: Andy Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:52:45 -0500
G'day everyone,
This little announcement serves two purposes, one to let everyone know
that it exists, and two, to gauge how much interest there is in
expanding the project scope :-).
First, what is it?
PostgreSQL is an excellent open source Database Engine that performs
well, and offers the most competitively complete SQL based RDBMS
available in Open Source. It readily competes with most commercial
offerings. It's weakness, particularly on the Mac, is installation and
graphical management tools. For that reason, I started packaging
PostgreSQL as a binary and writing some very basic utilities for the
Mac to interface with it. The initial start of this went on
VersionTracker, and while the tools are and were free, they were not
OSS.
With this release they now are. Everything, from the core PostgreSQL
to the code for the graphical tools is now under and OSI approved BSD
license, and has been moved to SourceForge.
The tools are written in Cocoa, and leverage a simple ADO style
framework that is also written in Cocoa and is built on top of libpq.
The binary installer includes the tools, PostgreSQL 8.0.1 and the JDBC
driver. The PostgreSQL ODBC driver is soon to be included.
In short, the project is aimed to be a one stop, single installer that
includes everything needed to install, manage and consume a PostgreSQL
database server.
The downside is that I'm still relatively new to Cocoa, and having come
from a Windows background, this project isn't as bullet proof as I
might like. The advantage to OSS is that some additional eyes are a
good thing. With that said, I leave you to your day, and hope that
anyone with an interest drops by and takes a look, comments,
suggestions and critiques are welcomed.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsqlformac/
Andy Satori
Druware Software Designs
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