Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles
Date: 2017-04-12 00:56:47
Message-ID: 20170412005647.GE20340@momjian.us
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:51:03PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Yeah, very long ago. A quick search of our archives shows that the number
> of mentions of Borland pretty much fell off a cliff after 2009 (excluding
> the repeated conversations about dropping support, that is). I found one
> report suggesting that it was already broken in 2012:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/AD61A3A7C80949178643FE5D2811C35F%40LynnPC
>
> It seems pretty safe to say that nobody's using this build method
> anymore. As best I can tell from perusing the archives, the reason
> we used to expend a lot of sweat on it was that there was a freely
> available version of Borland C and none of MSVC. But that stopped
> being true a long time ago, so there's not much reason to concern
> ourselves with it anymore.

Agreed, I was just pointing out why it remained so long.

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