Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc
Date: 2016-03-05 05:46:55
Message-ID: 15559.1457156815@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> I vote for just using sed considering we need flex and bison anyway.

> OK cool, we could go with something else than sed to generate probes.h
> but that seems sensible considering that this should definitely be
> back-patched. Not sure what the others think about adding a new file
> in the source tarball by default though.

AFAIK, sed flex and bison originate from three separate source projects;
there is no reason to suppose that the presence of flex and bison on a
particular system guarantee the presence of sed. I thought the proposal
to get rid of the psed dependence in favor of some more perl code was
pretty sane.

regards, tom lane

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