Re: What I would say if someone asked me about no

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Jan is right that we need Win32 maintainers. I want to set up a few
> > > > things to grow the group, just like Jan did when he added foreign keys:
> > > >
> > > > o mailing list
> > >
> > > pgsql-hackers-win32?
> >
> > Good.
>
> Done ... I put you as owner of it, but its also listed when I go through
> moderated postings ...
>
> > > did we do this for foreign keys? I thought we'd always avoided doing that
> > > ...
> >
> > Right. I don't think we did it for foreign keys, but I think we will
> > need it so multiple people can work and submit patches. I could just
> > keep a separate Win32 tree here and publish the diffs against current
> > CVS, if that is better. I can put it up on ftp, so, yea, we don't need
> > it, and it keeps us honest about tracking win32. What it doesn't do is
> > to allow folks to get cvs changes to a tree they have already modified.
>
> I have no problems with us creating a branch, and it would make it easy
> for anyone to pull things down ... its also keeps all the histories
> available centrally ...
>
> Can I suggest a branch at v7.3, so that those working on the win32 have a
> 'stable branch' to base it off of, and then we can pull things up in v7.4
> and -HEAD as they become available?

Only current CVS has my Win32 change I already made. I think it will
have to be against current.

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