Re: What I would say if someone asked me about no win32

From: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
To: "Robert Treat" <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What I would say if someone asked me about no win32
Date: 2003-07-30 12:52:04
Message-ID: 303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5434A9B2@cuthbert.rcsinc.local
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I would tell them to prototype on the cygwin version and port to the
native version when it comes out. I was counting off the days until the
win32 port for 7.4 but (IMO) the developers made the right decision to
delay until the next release. The cygwin version is a drag to install
but should be ok for development purposes.

I used to tell people to use the PeerDirect port but 7.2.1 is missing a
lot of nice features (especially schemas) and that port has some issues
with the WAL which (IMO) make it not very attractive in a production
environment. From what I understand Bruce has resolved these issues in
the official port. 7.4 has some killer features which I think are
under-hyped (for example

John Carmack's mantra regarding the hugely overdue Doom3 project is 'it
will be ready when it's ready'. In software, that's a good motto.

Merlin

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:28 PM
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] What I would say if someone asked me about no
win32

Q. Hey, I read in a bunch of places that 7.4 was going to have native
windows support, what gives?

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