Re: CVS of 8.1.x MS-VC6 probrem.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Hiroshi Saito" <saito(at)inetrt(dot)skcapi(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CVS of 8.1.x MS-VC6 probrem.
Date: 2005-12-09 14:33:07
Message-ID: 10970.1134138787@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> As one of the people who has had the joy of maintaining this in the
> past, I wanted to drop it as you may remember but that was rejected on
> the basis that someone somewhere might want to use their own VC++ build
> over our precompiled versions for some reason.

> Now that there is a project on pgFoundry allowing builds of the entire
> server using VC++, perhaps we should rethink that decision?

I recall wanting to drop it too. Wasn't the argument about whether the
libpq.dll we produce would work nicely in a VC++ project? If it does,
then I'm willing to push the problem off to the pgFoundry project.

(Of course that would be a change for 8.2, not something we should drop
in existing branches.)

regards, tom lane

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