Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?

On 2014-09-20 10:03:43 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 09/20/2014 09:24 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >At the moment there's some rememnants of support for borland CC. I don't
> >believe it's likely that any of it still works. I can't remember ever
> >seing a buildfarm animal running it either - not surprising it's ~15
> >years since the last release.
> >Since there's both msvc and mingw support for windows builds - borlands
> >only platform - I see little point in continuing to support it.
> >
> >The reason I'm wondering is that the atomics patch cargo cults forward
> >some stuff specific to borland and I'd rather not do that. And I'd
> >rather be explicit about stopping to do so than slyly doing it.
> >
>
> I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client
> libraries for use with things like Delphi.
>
> It might be worth casting the net a little wider to find out if it still has
> any users.

FWIW I got offlist reports of two not subscribed people that they simply
use the normal libpq dll from delphi. Copying it from pgadmin or the pg
installer.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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