Re: How much work is a native Windows application?

From: Jean-Michel POURE <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How much work is a native Windows application?
Date: 2002-05-08 09:05:40
Message-ID: 200205081105.40462.jm.poure@freesurf.fr
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Le Mercredi 8 Mai 2002 06:03, Marc G. Fournier a écrit :
> Actually, there are licensing issues involved ... we could never put a
> 'windows binary' up for anon-ftp, since to distribute it would require the
> cygwin.dll to be distributed, and to do that, there is a licensing cost
> ... of course, I guess we could require ppl to download cygwin seperately,
> install that, then install the binary over top of that ...

This is an installer problem. Let's port dpkg to Windows, create a minimal
Cygwin dpkg distribution .. et voilà.

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