Re: Draft release notes

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >Here is an early draft of the release notes. It needs more polish and
> >review:
> >
> > http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgrelease
> >
> >I will catch up on my email tomorrow, update the open items list for
> >8.2, and then return to the release notes for cleanup.
>
> * Allow regression tests to be run on Win32 without MinGW (Magnus, Tom)
>
> This is not entirsely correect. What was done was a re-implementation of
> pg_regress in C from shellscript. This is a prerequisite for running the
> tests completely without mingw, but you can't do that yet (there needs
> to be rules in the VC build stuff to deal with the regression output
> files that need to be edited, for example - this is done with sed from
> the Makefile today.

OK, updated wording:

* Reimplement the regression test as a C program (Magnus, Tom)

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