Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:

> This whole bit about Windows is a red herring. Perhaps I should not have phrased it the way I did WRT Windows. So I'm going to change it to:
>
>> The PGAN client will make no other assumptions about how to build and install extensions, leaving such to the PostgreSQL core. To the extent that PGXS-powered `make` works on a given platform, the client will support it.
>
> Discussing it with Andrew, that means it should work if you have mingw, and we might have to tweak it a bit to work with `src/tools/msvc`.
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> So the point is: the PGAN client (which is just one part of this project, after all), will *not* include a build system. It will use whatever build system is supported by the community. Right now that's PGXS. If core switches to something later, or provides binary builds for Windows, the client will be easily adapted to take advantage of it. No sweat.
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> The upshot is this: PGAN does *not* ignore Windows or any other platform. Rather, it relies on others to create the appropriate community-supported installers for all platforms. The issue of build systems and installers is not within its domain. Thus, I've also changed the FAQ to:

If that is the goal of your project then I withdraw my previous
comments, which were written on the belief that you were proposing a
generic distribution/build/installation system for PostgreSQL users.

Sorry for the noise!

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Dave Page
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