From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network |
Date: | 2010-01-08 15:12:12 |
Message-ID: | 937d27e11001080712w591da48dp5a1e732decb965d8@mail.gmail.com |
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Hey Andrew
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Windows came late to the buildfarm. According to the CVS log, the buildfarm
> client was first checked in in Sept 2004, got initial Mingw support in Jan
> 2005 and MSVC support in March 2007, when we finally got some of the tools
> sorted out.
Right - but the buildfarm isn't a feature being offered to end users.
> I have long spoken against making Windows a second class citizen. But I
> don't think David is going to do that (and I'll hound him if he does). But
> that doesn't mean it has to be fully supported from day one.
I'm not saying it should be supported from day 1, but I think the
initial plan will make it very difficult to add Windows support later
without a great deal of rewriting/redesign. It's lack of forward
planning I was objecting to.
> Personally, I'd like to see us with a build service for such modules (c.f.
> OpenSuse's build service).
+1
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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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