Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

Greg Landrum wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 12:45 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf
>>>Of Greg Landrum
>>>Sent: 08 April 2005 01:35
>>>To: Dave Page
>>>Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>>Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available
>>>
>>>On Apr 6, 2005 3:29 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>A pgInstaller build of PostgreSQL 8.0.2 beta 1 for Windows
>>>
>>>is available
>>>
>>>>for testing at
>>>
>>>http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.2beta1/win32/
>>>
>>>Does the new installer beta include the extra headers required to do
>>>backend development on win32 systems or will a source distribution
>>>still be required there?
>>
>>Source will be required as this work has not been done yet.

I wonder if it is really sensible to include all backend includes.
People might think they can easily develop backend modules with any
compiler, which I doubt will be supported thoroughly. Second, somebody
who has mingw installed won't have a problem to unzip those backend
sources too; compiling the backend is a good test if everything's
working as expected.
So I'd suggest to leave backend includes out of the std distribution, or
at least make a distinctively selectable (non-default) package from it.

Regards,
Andreas