| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com |
| Cc: | Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Cygwin support |
| Date: | 2025-04-22 20:27:23 |
| Message-ID: | 23f87229-0a7a-4dc6-a11d-29b7f3ddcc9e@dunslane.net |
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On 2025-04-22 Tu 12:55 PM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 10:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I vaguely recall some discussion about whether building with readline
>> has become possible under MSVC. I think it'd make a lot of people
>> happy if that could happen (but I hasten to add that I'm not
>> volunteering).
> https://postgr.es/m/CACLU5mThm-uCtERMVHMoGED2EPfyS54j83WB20s_BmzVQuMkpg%40mail.gmail.com
>
> Seems like Kirk didn't pursue this further.
>
It's worth looking at, but I don't think it's possible for release 18
let alone the older releases. We should look at retiring Cygwin when all
the live branches have psql with a working readline on native Windows
builds.
cheers
andrew
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