>
> Is it worth spending thousands of person-hours converting what we have
> into something different that happens to be de rigeur, and (especially)
> using up many hours of our precious core developer time while they learn
> the new methods, while not actually gaining functionality? Also, probably
> not.
>
Unfortunately for me I have laready spend many hourse to replace build
system by CMake and it's working fine for most cases (even for Power8 AIX
and Spac Solaris).
Already now you can build postgres for windows without terminal at all. At
least I want to find good use for this development.