| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut(dot)holzgraefe(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Is a modern build system acceptable for older platforms |
| Date: | 2018-05-01 16:44:38 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmobeZSA7BvwU+2TfaPUs500zzsurEvPXA1B_1o7d3LvA-g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> How is being able to build extensions on windows reasonably not an
> improvement? It's really hard to build pgxs like stuff on windows right
> now. Also not having to maintain a fair amount of visual studio project
> generation code? And getting faster builds that don't suffer from weird
> parallelism issues because dependencies can't be expressed properly in
> parallel make? ...
Sure, those are notable advantages. Thanks for articulating them so clearly.
> It seems fair to argue that it's not worth the pain to get there, but
> how it'd not be an improvement to be there I really don't get.
Well that's probably because you understand cmake. I don't.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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