| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt(at)greenplum(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion for MSVC build |
| Date: | 2007-09-25 19:59:58 |
| Message-ID: | 46F968BE.70203@dunslane.net |
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Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>>> Many of us would like to see libedit ported to Windows too ;-)
>>>
>> Yeah, it's on my (insanely long) TODO to look at sometime :-)
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>
> I've thought about working on a libedit port myself, but I don't see how
> that would help PostgreSQL unless the PostgreSQL community would be
> willing to include the libedit code into our source tree
> (pgsql/src/port/? ).
>
> Otherwise it would just be downloadable from some obscure place that
> most people won't find or trust.
>
It would mean that the distributed Windows binaries would be free of
GPLed code.
Most people don't actually build from source. I especially suspect that
very few people build on Windows.
cheers
andrew
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