Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> 2015-05-29 10:40 GMT+02:00 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
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>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> > 2015-05-29 9:42 GMT+02:00 Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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>> >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> >> > 1. VS requires relatively new MS Windows - problem for people with Ms
>> >> > Win 7
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>> >> Really, I use Win 2k8 stuff and Win7 quite a lot.
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>> > On Win 7 you have to search and install now unsupported VS EE 2010.
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>> I've been running 2013 on Windows 7 since it came out. Works perfectly
>> well, and didn't require any unusual installation.
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> I had different experience - When I did it year ago, I had to searching and
> install VS 2010.

And it is not mandatory to use or install visual basic, a simple
Windows SDK with perl installed is enough to build and install PG from
a command prompt.
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Michael