Re: pgsql: Doc: remove some long-obsolete information from installation.sgm

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Doc: remove some long-obsolete information from installation.sgm
Date: 2019-09-06 14:20:14
Message-ID: aaa4e5d2-ed20-d4c7-0e91-46b9723ea1fe@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-09-06 15:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 2019-09-01 23:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> So did the old wording, it seemed to me. I'm happy to remove the sentence
>>> altogether if there's no reason to be pushing people away from MinGW.
>>> Should we also rethink the sentence I added at the top of the chapter,
>>> pointing Windows people to chapter 17?
>
>> Yeah, I suggest this:
>> ...
>
> Hm, I'm tempted to also drop the sentence about the "ready-made installer"
> then. It doesn't particularly belong here, and the only way to read it
> is as a nudge to not use the MinGW build process.

Agreed, it seems out of place there.

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