| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support |
| Date: | 2023-04-11 17:09:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20230411170936.jwwrhr2sh2kbdqev@awork3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2023-04-11 10:44:09 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 4/11/23 10:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > > On 4/11/23 9:49 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Sadly, I think we really have to ship both build systems in v16.
> >
> > > But maybe we can make it clear in the release notes + docs that this is
> > > slated for deprecation and will be removed from v17? That way we can say
> > > "we provided ample warning to move to the new build system."
> >
> > Yes, we absolutely should do that, as already discussed upthread.
>
> Ah yes, I saw Andres' notep[1] yesterday and had already forgotten. +1 on
> that plan.
Here's a draft docs change.
I added the <warning/> in two places in install-windows.sgml so it's visible
on both the generated pages in the chunked output. That does mean it's visible
twice nearby in the single-page output, but I don't think that's commonly
used.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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| v1-0001-docs-Building-with-src-tools-msvc-is-deprecated.patch | text/x-diff | 2.9 KB |
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