Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network

Hey Andrew

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Windows came late to the buildfarm. According to the CVS log, the buildfarm
> client was first checked in in Sept 2004, got initial Mingw support in Jan
> 2005 and MSVC support in March 2007, when we finally got some of the tools
> sorted out.

Right - but the buildfarm isn't a feature being offered to end users.

> I have long spoken against making Windows a second class citizen. But I
> don't think David is going to do that (and I'll hound him if he does). But
> that doesn't mean it has to be fully supported from day one.

I'm not saying it should be supported from day 1, but I think the
initial plan will make it very difficult to add Windows support later
without a great deal of rewriting/redesign. It's lack of forward
planning I was objecting to.

> Personally, I'd like to see us with a build service for such modules (c.f.
> OpenSuse's build service).

+1

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