| From: | Jean-Michel POURE <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr> |
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| To: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How much work is a native Windows application? |
| Date: | 2002-05-08 09:02:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200205081102.58583.jm.poure@freesurf.fr |
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Le Mardi 7 Mai 2002 20:32, mlw a écrit :
> Since RedHat owns cygwin and they want RedHat database to be a success,
> maybe they can make an exception to the GNU license for PostgreSQL.
Cygwin received contributions from several authors. To leave a GNU licence,
you need to get the agreement of all authors, which is not possible for a big
project like Cygwin.
Alternatively, you could pick-up the old static version of Cygwin and release
it as a minimal Cygwin dll. This idea is probably ***stupid***.
Another possible solution is http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ project,
which tries to port dpkg to Windows. If it was possible to release Cygwin
using dpkg, we could create a comprehensive Cygwin + PostgreSQL on-line
installer.
Why look for complicated solutions when the only real issue for users is the
Cygwin installer?
Cheers,
Jean-Michel POURE
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