Re: Proposal: Remove regress-python3-mangle.mk

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Yury Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove regress-python3-mangle.mk
Date: 2016-05-04 18:56:16
Message-ID: a0b85620-cf4c-1c03-d6ac-d7b2beb6d435@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/19/16 10:23 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
>> 3. Because we use sed we do not tests for plpython3 under Windows. And I
>> > have trouble with CMake too.
> Even if removing regress-python3-mangle.mk happened to be good for PL/Python,
> we need build systems flexible enough to implement steps like it without a
> struggle. Our current build systems, the src/tools/msvc system and the GNU
> make system, have that flexibility. We could port regress-python3-mangle.mk
> to Perl and run it on Windows; it just hasn't been a priority.

Well, you could write the mangling script in Python, but that's harder
than it sounds.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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