Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
> Building with the VC compiler using GNU makefiles is a whole different
> story - if that can be made to work reasonably easily it would be a
> worthwhile goal (in my experience, for example, the VSEE compiler
> optimises things a whole lot better than gcc on win32). I just don't see
> the payoff in getting rid of make.

+1 here. It's already enough of a pain in the neck taking care of the
Windows-specific build support for libpq and psql; we're not going to
take on maintaining a complete parallel build infrastructure for a
proprietary platform. (In fact, there's been serious discussion of
dropping the Windows-specific build scripts that are there now, as
it's not clear why they are still needed when you can build the stuff
in mingw and then use it elsewhere.) But we already deal with lots of
different compilers, so one more shouldn't be a problem --- as long as
you can drive it with gmake.

regards, tom lane