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Re: Does a Launchpad developer *really* need Slony-I installed?

 

On Monday 22 February 2010 12:42:24 Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In the most recent launchpad-dependencies upload, Michael Barnett added
> > slony1-bin and postgresql-8.3-slony1 to launchpad-database-dependencies.
> >
> > I can see how these would be wanted in production, but are they really
> > needed for development?
> 
> If you want to run a local replicated environment for testing, yes.
> 
> (make -C database/replication devsetup)
> 
> I'm probably the only person who has ever done this though.

My laptop is already overloaded.  I saw this update and groaned as I now have 
a slony daemon running on it.

There has to be a way of selectively starting this in your test?




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