Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
To: "William ZHANG" <uniware(at)zedware(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2005-09-01 15:06:49
Message-ID: 6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB3417DD253@Herge.rcsinc.local
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William wrote:
> You are right. What I want is VC++ projects(*.dsp, *.dsw). Once the
> project files is created, the maintance work is simply add/remove some
> new/deleted source files (*.c only) from the dsps.
>
> And I think VC++ 6.0 is ok, it is power enough and not so big for
pgsql's
> development. And latter versions of VC++ can automatically convert
6.0's
> project files. There are also a "VC++7 to VC++6 project converter" on
> www.codeproject.com.

You might be surprised to know that this has been already done. Back in
the 7.2 cycle there was a win32 build floating around that compiled and
built inside of visual studio 6. I think Jan Wieck was one of the
people involved in the effort.

That would be a good place to start looking.

Merlin

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