Re: Issues tangential to win32 support

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Issues tangential to win32 support
Date: 2002-05-09 20:15:02
Message-ID: 1020975306.2451.76.camel@rh72.home.ee
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On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:33, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> It took a few hundred man hours to do it.

About 2-8 weeks for one full time programmer ?

> I see the whole Win32 port as
> a non issue. Several parties have already completed it (including the
> place where I work -- CONNX Solutions Inc.). If we did not do it or all
> parties who already did it were hit by a comet or something, someone
> else would accomplish it. It isn't trivial but it isn't impossible
> either. If a need is large enough, someone will manage it. The need is
> large enough. Ergo...

Do you know which of these run ((reasonably) well) on win9x ?

> Here are some other things related:
>
> A ready to go Win32 PosgreSQL package:
> http://www.dbexperts.net/postgresql

Perhaps we should back up and let dbexperts et.al. recover their costs
and after that repent and commit changes back to main tree ;)

## insert a little ad-hominem attack to everyone objecting a native
## win32 port as owning stock in some win32-pg-selling company

BTW, do they have an evaluation version or do they think that people
would in that case evaluate on win32 and then buy a cheap linux box for
$495.- :)

--------------------
Hannu

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