Re: Microsoft releses Services for Unix

Bruce Momjian said:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> Dave Page wrote:
>> > Steve Tibbett wrote:
>> > > Windows users will always prefer a Windows solution to a Unix
>> > > solution running on SFU... I'd say sticking with the original goal
>> > > of making a native Win32 version would be preferable.
>> >
>> > Plus I'll bet we couldn't distribute the required components
>> > ourselves and would thus require the user to download interix first.
>>
>> Yes, but consider this:
>> 1. from a windows developer's point of view, requiring Interix is no
>> better or worse than requiring cygwin or mingw, except for maybe the
>> size of the download/install.
>
> FYI, we require mingw to compile PostgreSQL on Win32, not to run
> PostgreSQL on Win32, right?
>

Yes, of course. Otherwise we have all been wasting our time very badly ;-)

In fact, it's quite important that all work be tested from a Windows
command prompt, and not just from inside Mingw. I know I found numerous
errors that I corrected that way.

cheers

andrew