From: | Kevin Lo <kevlo(at)hello(dot)com(dot)tw> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | David Warnock <david(at)sundayta(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Announce: PostgreSQL-6.5.3 binaries available forWindowsNT |
Date: | 2000-01-05 06:10:18 |
Message-ID: | 3872E04A.B946F847@hello.com.tw |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > We are interested in funding work to get postgresql working on Windows
> > 9x.
> >
> > I know that cgywin is available for Win9x but that parts of the api are
> > not available.
> >
> > Do you believe it will be possible to build and run postgresql on Win9x?
> > How much work would be involved?
>
> I wonder if it would be easier to pay Cygnus to port the missing pieces.
> Can you give us a detailed list of the missing features the PostgreSQL
> needs the Cgywin doesn't have on Win9x?
I'm gonna implement Tcl/Tk API with PostgreSQL, let users can write
GUI apps. But it seems to take a lot of time...
Some people told me they can use NT binaries on Win98.
Well, I don't test it yet.
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- Kevin
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