Re: libpq.dll on win32

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libpq.dll on win32
Date: 2004-10-12 19:40:02
Message-ID: 416C3312.3050803@dunslane.net
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Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>>The avaiable options to do it are just horrible. There is
>>>
>>>
>>edlin, but it
>>
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>>>can't be used for anything serious. Or there is the wonderful
>>>
>>>
>>concept of
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>>>writing something in vbscript. But putting vbscript in there doesn't
>>>seem like a very good option.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>ActiveState Perl? It's very widely used.
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>>
>
>Yes, but it's not in there by default.
>If we're going to require a third party tool to be installed, we'd
>probably be better off requiring a simple sed.exe which is a single
>binary instead of the whole perl package which is hundreds of files and
>many megabytes...
>
>

Try this then: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm (almost
a single binary, anyway)

cheers

andrew

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