Re: back branches vs. VS 2008

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 19:08, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>> I'm not going to maintain more than one buildfarm member doing MSVC, and and
>>> if we were to adopt your policy I would not be able to use a modern-ish
>>> version of the compiler/SDK and also build all the live branches.
>
>> Well, it's perfectly possible to have more tha none version of MSVC on
>> the machine.
>
>> And we're not going to be changing the version that's actually used
>> for the official binary builds, so all you'll accomplish then is to
>> have the buildfarm test something different form what we're shipping.
>
> Are you speaking for EDB on that?

He's not speaking *for* us, but he's absolutely right.

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