Re: Path to PostgreSQL portabiliy

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> mlw wrote:
> >
> > No matter what steps you take, cygwin will not be seen by Windows users as
> > anything but a sloppy/messy/horrible hack. It is a fact of life. You are
> > welcome to disagree, but I assure you it is true.
>
> Just to clarify here: is it confirmed that having the complete cygwin
> distribution is a necessary condition to having a running PostgreSQL on
> windows? Is it not possible that, having built postgresql with the full
> cygwin, it would be possible to make a nice clean setup.exe package

Well, PostgreSQL goes as far as using system(3) to do "cp -r"
and stuff. Dunno what you call it, but I'd say it's making
assumptions that one shouldn't make :-)

Jan

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