[postgis-users] [Fwd: Re: [HACKERS] new procedural language - PL/R]

[Paul Ramsey]

Joe Conway wrote:> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> Joe Conway <mail at joeconway.com> writes:
>>
>>> 2) Knowing the trend to move stuff *out* of the PostgreSQL source 
>>> tarball, and assuming plr is released under GPL, is there any chance 
>>> that it would be accepted into src/pl or contrib, or should I start a 
>>> gborg project (I'd prefer if it could at least live in contrib)?
>>
>>
>> I think we'd have to insist on gborg.  The only reason there are any
>> non-BSD-license items left in contrib is that I haven't finished my TODO
>> item to get their licenses changed or remove 'em.
> 
> 
> [...snip...]
> 
>> BSD would be good.  I agree that it'll be a pain in the neck to
>> maintain a PL that is not in the main tree, so I'd support accepting it
>> if we can get the license right.
> 
> 
> I finally got a response from one of the core R developers: "libR is 
> GPL-ed, and that is unlikely to change" -- so I guess gborg it is :-(
> (not that I have anything against gborg ;-))
> 
> Before making any release announcements, I'd be interested in feedback 
> if anyone feels so inclined. The source is currently available here:
>   http://www.joeconway.com/plr/plr.0.1.1.alpha.tar.gz
> 
> The documentation, including preprocessed html, is in the tar ball. I've 
> also posted the html docs here:
>   http://www.joeconway.com/plr/index.html
> 
>  From the README (more or less):
> -------------------------------
> Installation:
>   Place tar file in 'contrib' in the PostgreSQL source tree and untar.
>   Then run:
> 
>     make
>     make install
>     make installcheck
> 
>   You can use plr.sql to create the language and functions in your
>   database of choice, e.g.
> 
>     psql mydatabase < plr.sql
> -------------------------------
> 
> In addition to the documentation, the plr.out file in plr/expected is a 
> good source of usage examples.
> 
> PL/R should build cleanly with PostgreSQL 7.3.x and cvs HEAD. It was 
> developed using libR from R 1.6.2 under Red Hat 7.3 & 8.0 -- I've not 
> tested against other versions of R or different OSes.
> 
> Please let me know how it goes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
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