Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Liam Bowen <liambowen(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dead link to MinGW in Windows documentation
Date: 2022-01-17 10:37:02
Message-ID: CABUevExGyzJQn1DpDKgg-eDgReC=651Z1-RF0WhF4ATxGBytkg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:25 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>
> > On 17 Jan 2022, at 07:21, Liam Bowen <liambowen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > From https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/install-windows-full.html --
> >
> > > Both Bison and Flex are included in the msys tool suite, available from http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS as part of the MinGW compiler suite.
> >
> > Aforementioned link is to a domain squatter.
> >
> > Perhaps MSYS2 could be used instead? https://packages.msys2.org/base
>
> Agreed, that seems like a better URL to refer to. Unless there are objections
> I will fix that in all supported branches.

+1.

Note that there are two references to mingw.org -- also one in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/installation-platform-notes.html as
well. They should both be fixed.

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Magnus Hagander
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