Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 08:00:09AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I had suggested this arrangement as a way to reduce churn in this patch set.
> We'd just move over the existing separate chapter into a new section, and
> then later consider further rearrangements.
>
> It's not always clear where all of these things should go, as there are so
> many dimensions. For example, the existing sentence "After you have
> everything installed, it is suggested that you run psql under CMD.EXE, as
> the MSYS console has buffering issues.", does that apply to MinGW, or really
> MSYS, or does it also apply if you build with Visual Something?

Even for this specific one, are you sure that it still applies? :D

> Ultimately, I don't think MinGW needs to be its own section.

Yes, agreed. The end result should be one single sect2 for Windows
divided into multiple sect3, perhaps themselves divided into more
sect4 for each build method. As a whole, before refactoring all that,
I'd be in favor of a slightly different strategy once the MSVC scripts
and install-windows.sgml with its stuff specific to src/tools/msvc are
gone:
- Review all this section from the docs and trim them from everything
that we think is now irrelevant.
- Look at the rest and see how it can be efficiently refactored into
balanced sections.

Your suggestion to create a new sect2 for "Windows" as much as Andres'
suggestion are OK by as an intermediate step, and I suspect that the
end result will likely not be that.
--
Michael