Re: FDW API / flow charts for the docs?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FDW API / flow charts for the docs?
Date: 2013-10-21 04:24:38
Message-ID: 20131021042438.GB1201@fetter.org
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:56:23PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:46 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > As to your point about not wanting to do it for a single image- it seems
> > we could potentially say that for every individual image proposed, but
> > if we don't keep track of those images anywhere then we may not realize
> > that 5 or 10 have actually been done and proposed but never integrated.
> > If they're kept on the wiki then perhaps we would both keep track of the
> > ones proposed and realize when it's worthwhile to add support for them
> > to the doc build system.
>
> Right.
>
> > As to Tom's point on the previous thread, that we would need to actually
> > maintain these images, that is helped by using dia, imv, since it's a
> > pretty simple tool to use and understand and is available on many
> > platforms.
>
> I'd also take a look at ditaa, which might make this even simpler.

If we manage to keep Java out of our build toolchain, we will be much
the better for it.

Cheers,
David.
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