| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan |
| Date: | 2008-02-07 21:48:57 |
| Message-ID: | 47AB7CC9.9030601@hagander.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I've never heard any
>> complaints about building svn from source before for *developers*. I think
>> that's just as easy as anything else.
>
> [ shrug... ] The message I quoted was from Bob Friesenhahn, who is
> certainly a competent C programmer. If it took him half a day to
> install SVN from scratch, I'm prepared to believe it's not trivial.
> At the very least, I suggest you replicate the experiment before
> asserting you know more about it than someone who's tried.
I've built it from source several times, and it's certainly not taken
half a day. It took quite a while to build, but it wasn't hard to do at all.
Goes to replicate the experiment, not to argue for or against any of the
products.
//Magnus
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