Re: Suggestion for MSVC build

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for MSVC build
Date: 2007-09-25 19:59:53
Message-ID: 20070925195953.GG6440@alvh.no-ip.org
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Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> > >
> > > Many of us would like to see libedit ported to Windows too ;-)
> >
> > Yeah, it's on my (insanely long) TODO to look at sometime :-)
> >
> > //Magnus
>
> I've thought about working on a libedit port myself, but I don't see how
> that would help PostgreSQL unless the PostgreSQL community would be
> willing to include the libedit code into our source tree
> (pgsql/src/port/? ).
>
> Otherwise it would just be downloadable from some obscure place that
> most people won't find or trust.

Windows people only download the installer anyway, so that's not a
problem.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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