Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Here is a summary of the responses to my Win32 roadmap. I hope this
will allow further discussion.

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INSTALLER
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Cygwin Setup.exe http://cygwin.com
Nullsoft http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/

GUI
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pgAdmin2 http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1
pgaccess http://pgaccess.org/
Java admin (to be written)
Dev-C++ admin (to be written) http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/

BINARY
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FORK()

cygwin fork() http://cygwin.com
CreateProcess() and copy global area

THREADING

Posix threads
Gnu pth http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
ST http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/docs/st.html
(single-session multi-threading possible)
(Posix AIO is possible)

IPC

Cygwin http://cygwin.com
MinGW http://www.mingw.org/
ACE http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
APR http://apr.apache.org/
Our own

ENVIRONMENT

Cygwin http://cygwin.com
UnxUtils http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Write own initdb

IMPLEMENTATIONS
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PostgreSQLe http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA023283/PostgreSQLe.html
Dbexperts http://www.dbexperts.net/postgresql
Connx http://www.connx.com/
gborg http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/winpackage/projdisplay.php
Interbase http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,23217,00.html

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