Re: Maintenance release

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serguei Mokhov [mailto:mokhov(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca]
> Sent: 14 October 2003 16:36
> To: Dave Page; Hiroshi Saito; Andreas Pflug
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Maintenance release
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> Oh, really? :| Cuz quite a few users still use Windows 98.

Yes, really. Search the archives...

> (Yet very small fraction of them use PG and the admin tools;
> out of which phpPgAdmin dominates...)

Huh? Unless you have evidence to the contrary:
http://www.postgresql.org/survey.php?View=1&SurveyID=7 clearly puts
pgAdmin in second place behind psql, and that was before we added
Linux/FreeBSD support.

> > It is (might be was) possible to compile pgAdmin for 9x,
> but it's yet
> > another port to maintain. Do you desperately need it?
>
> I'd love to have it for a couple of my 98 boxes. I did try to
> compile it with Visual C++ on my Win98 SE a couple of months
> back. Originally, it did not.
> The first reason was UNIX EOLs for VC++ project and workspace
> files... Then I had issues with compiling and linking to
> wxWindows... and then I didn't have time. Though my compiling
> and linking problems existed because I used not your version
> of wxWindows, but the one from their website. Only after I
> realized that you had your proper patches for it.

I will look into doing a port then.