Re: [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig [mailto:postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:54 PM
> To: Brian Bruns; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted
>
>
> Brian Bruns wrote:
>
> >Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all
> >download the binary a guy (usually literally "one guy")
> built. So, let's
> >just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine
> and we'll be
> >all set. </tougue in cheek>
> >
> >
>
> Correct.
> I wonder why we need a Windows port.

Maybe because most of the machines in the world (by a titanic landslide) are Windoze boxes.

> I think it is more pain
> than sense. In case of Windows I'd rely on a binary
> distribution and a piece of
> documentation telling how the source can be built.

Sounds like a Windows port to me. How is this "Windows build" going to be created without a "Windows port"?

> I don't
> expect many
> people to do it. Usually Open Source guys run *NIX

Taken a poll lately?

> >Sorry, couldn't help myself...Seriously, it's a cultural thing, I
> >wouldn't
> >plan on a mighty hoard of windows database developers who
> are put off by
> >loading cygwin. I do wonder what the requirements are for building
> >commercial db's that run on unix and windows. I imagine they are
> >similarly off-putting if it were an option.
> >
> >
>
> In case of SAP DB they use a tool kit for building
>
> http://www.sapdb.org/develop/sap_db_development.htm

> It is truly painful to build it - even on UNIX (I haven't tried on
> Windows and I won't try in the future).
> As far as I have seen it throughs millions of compiler warnings.

It was simple to build. And if you don't want to build it, they have binary distributions. I have SAP/DB running on this machine (along with SQL*Server, PostgreSQL, DB/2, Oracle, Firebird and a few others) SAP DB is or can be used for SAP (basically, it's a port of Adabas). That makes it kind of important, for obvious reasons.