| From: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 defines |
| Date: | 2003-04-05 19:40:01 |
| Message-ID: | 1049571599.31176.51.camel@jester |
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On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 12:53, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:38:51PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Neil Conway wrote:
> > >
> > > > If we finish the native Win32 port, is there any need to keep the cygwin
> > > > stuff around?
> > >
> > > They do ship PostgreSQL with cygwin, so we may need to keep it around,
> > > at least for a few releases, and it isn't that big a port.
> >
> > Surely there's no need for a less performant, less reliable Cygwin port
> > when a native Win32 one is available? If they ship it now, they
> > probably won't need to later when the Win32 port is finished. Cygwin is
> > already said to be "experimental" or non-commercial quality, AFAIR.
> >
> > Not that I care though...
>
> I can remove it anytime people want it removed --- maybe once we have
> Win32 stabalized and working 100%, we can remove it.
Even wine has the occasional update to ensure it works on Cygwin -- so
I'm sure there are a number of good reasons that we just don't know yet.
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
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