Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

William ZHANG wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
> > To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>; "William ZHANG" <uniware(at)zedware(dot)org>
> > Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:21 PM
> > Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion
>
>
> > > And even those are a royal pain to maintain, never mind an entire set.
>
> > Besides, I'm sure what William really wants is not nmake files, but VC++
> > Project files - but then which version do we keep? It's not like we
> > could say that everyone should be using VS2005, so all commits would
> > have to be VC++ 6.0 or earlier compatible, otherwise someone is bound to
> > complain.
>
> You are right. What I want is VC++ projects(*.dsp, *.dsw). Once the
> project files is created, the maintance work is simply add/remove some
> new/deleted source files (*.c only) from the dsps.
>
> And I think VC++ 6.0 is ok, it is power enough and not so big for pgsql's
> development. And latter versions of VC++ can automatically convert 6.0's
> project files. There are also a "VC++7 to VC++6 project converter" on
> www.codeproject.com.

Also, how do you build the backend with VC without the MinGW
compatibility routines and include files? I know everyone is focused on
the build environment and shell script support, but there is also
library code translation support in MinGW too that we use.

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