Re: Win32 port

OK, Steve's vote is enough to indicate that most want to wait for
PeerDirect's version before moving forward with the Win32 port.

This also confirms that this will _not_ be an abreviated release cycle
but a full 4-6 months of development, followed by 2 months of beta.

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Steve Howe wrote:
> Hello Katie,
>
> Thursday, November 7, 2002, 7:08:20 PM, you wrote:
>
> KW> Hi, all.
>
> KW> I just wanted to give you an update on where my company (PeerDirect) is with
> KW> regards to our native Windows port.
>
> KW> We are planning on contributing the code for the native port sometime next
> KW> month (in December). We would have liked to contribute it earlier, but our
> KW> work schedules here didn't allow it.
>
> KW> The state of the port is that it passes all postgres regression tests. It's
> KW> been in BETA since early August with about 27 beta customers. The beta
> KW> customers came from a post made to the cygwin mailing list
> KW> (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2002-08/msg00012.php) The
> KW> BETA has proven successful and several problems were found and fixed.
>
> KW> At this point you are welcome to run the latest version of this BETA. There
> KW> is no installer, but there is a setenv.bat script to help setup the
> KW> environment. The beta can be downloaded at:
> KW> ftp://209.61.187.152/postgres/postgres_beta4.zip
>
> KW> This version has its own catalog version which is slightly different than
> KW> 7.2.1, so you'll need to do a pg_dump and pg_restore. If you find any
> KW> issues, please don't mail me directly. Instead, please send emails to
> KW> postgres-beta(at)peerdirect(dot)com(dot) Several people monitor this address and the
> KW> issue will get resolved more quickly.
>
> KW> There is still some cleanup work to do, such as migrating from 7.2.1 to 7.4,
> KW> but my company is committed to contributing this port to the community by
> KW> the end of the year.
> I have tried this version and it seems to work well on preliminary
> tests. Bruce, this probably is a good start for the port and I wonder
> if it worths having all that patching trouble you mentioned, specially
> when they offered to do it... I think you probably have a lot of work
> to do on other areas too...
>
> To Katie: does it compile with Mingw too ?
>
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> Best regards,
> Steve Howe mailto:howe(at)carcass(dot)dhs(dot)org
>
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