Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
Date: 2023-04-10 22:27:38
Message-ID: 20230410222738.57fdxwdrdhwatnr4@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-04-10 19:55:35 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Projects other than the EDB installers use the MSVC build system - e.g.
> pgAdmin uses it’s own builds of libpq and other tools (psql, pg_dump etc)
> that are pretty heavily baked into a fully automated build system (even the
> build servers and all their requirements are baked into Ansible).
>
> Changing that lot would be non-trivial, though certainly possible, and I
> suspect we’re not the only ones doing that sort of thing.

Do you have a link to the code for that, if it's open? Just to get an
impression for how hard it'd be to switch over?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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