Re: Another Modest Proposal: Platforms

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:03:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> > I mean, it took us forever to require Perl 5.8.
>>
>> ... and we still make a point of not having a hard requirement for
>> that.  If you don't want plperl, you can build from a tarball with
>> no perl at all.
>>
>> Given the project history, I can't see us turning a dependency we
>> just added this week into a hard requirement anytime soon.
>>
>> Now having said that, if you define "supported platform" to mean
>> "gets tested on the buildfarm", we do require Perl.  And CVS, which
>> will soon get replaced by a requirement for Git.  But I'm not going
>> to tell someone to get lost if they file a portability bug report
>> without having set up a buildfarm animal first.
>
> I agree that "get lost" is not a reasonable first reaction, but as
> with platforms like AIX, "It would help us enormously for you to put
> up a buildfarm animal with your development environment on it" isn't.

I feel like we do that already, as the occasion demands... so this
isn't really a change in policy from that point of view.

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