[Skytools-users] Skytools 3.0 alpha1

[Marko Kreen]

Enough is enough, so here is alpha release of Skytools 3.0:

  http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/testing/skytools-3.0a1.tgz

It is not a polished release, but a snapshot of current development tree.
Although it may happen to have couple of working use-cases..

It is for people who don't fear work-in-progress code and are
prepared to give feedback on issues.  Especially welcome would be
people who could submit code/doc patches, to help us bring the final
3.0 release faster.

Introductory document:

  http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/skytools-3.0/doc/skytools3.html

This also points to further documents that are somewhat up-to-date.

ToDo list which gives overview of the known pending issues:

  http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/skytools-3.0/doc/TODO.html

Guide how the check out the GIT tree:

  $ git clone git://github.com/markokr/skytools-dev.git
  $ cd skytools-dev
  $ git submodule init
  $ git submodule update

The `submodule` steps need to be done only once - they update
the `libusual` library where I collected common code for writing
unix daemons.

Building from GIT requires asciidoc, xmlto and autoconf packages.
Then you can do:

  $ make boot
  $ ./configure --prefix=..  --with-asciidoc
  $ make install

Last but not least, demo of new Londiste in action:

  http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/skytools-3.0/demo.html

This, together with `tests/londiste` and `londiste --help`, happen
to be also only documentation about new user-interface...  Hopefully
we can improve the situation in near future.  Any help is welcome.


Have fun!

-- 
marko