From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Terry Yapt <pgsql(at)technovell(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5. |
Date: | 2003-09-15 02:07:33 |
Message-ID: | 200309150207.h8F27X416189@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> > Some time ago there was a guy from Novell posting on hackers about the
> > porting of PostgreSQL to Netware. He sounded like most of the job was
> > already done, but he wanted to have some patches accepted to be able to
> > build with a toolchain different from GNU make and friends (because it
> > was one or two orders of magnitude faster). He left some time later
> > because of the null support he received for that, it seems.
>
> What is this, a troll? We gave that project quite a lot of support.
> My recollection is that we lost interest somewhere around here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-08/msg00278.php
> when it became clear that Netware couldn't or wouldn't try to arrange
> their code to keep the amount of platform-specific stuff reasonable.
> The patch as they were proposing it would have been completely
> unmaintainable --- certainly so for the community, probably for them
> too.
Last I remember they were going to port gmake to Novell and use that for
the port,but we never heard back from them.
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