Re: Native Windows, Apache Portable Runtime

mlw wrote:
>
> Upon doing some inspection of apache 2.x, it seems that me making a SysV
> Windows .DLL for PostgreSQL, while a cool project, would be unnecessary.
>
> The APR (Apache Portable Runtime) seems to have all the necessary support. The
> problem is that it has its own API.
>
> We should find a way to extract the APR out of apache and make it a library
> within PostgreSQL. A quick look at the license seems to indicate this is OK.
> Should we notify the Apache guys just to be polite?

Definitely. They make also be able to offer some tips and guidance
(i.e. there may already be a way of splitting it off easy, etc), but
we'll never know if we don't say hello. (Hey, that rhymes!)

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> It looks like the APR is pretty analogous to SysV with a few changes, so it
> should not be too hard to code it into PostgrsSQL.
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