Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds
Date: 2024-02-10 00:20:37
Message-ID: ZcbBVcfel7SMdLCU@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 11:59:21AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2024-02-09 16:22:35 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> + <productname>Diff</productname> is required to run the regression
>> + tests. On Windows, it may not be available by default.
>> + </para>
>> + </listitem>
>> </itemizedlist>
>> </para>
>
> It's not installed by default on a bunch of platforms, including in common
> linux distros. The same is true for bison, flex etc, so I'm not sure it's
> really worth calling this out here.

Removing the second sentence would be OK, I assume.

>> - <varlistentry>
>> - <term><productname>MIT Kerberos</productname></term>
>> - <listitem><para>
>> - Required for GSSAPI authentication support. MIT Kerberos can be
>> - downloaded from
>> - <ulink url="https://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/index.html"></ulink>.
>> - </para></listitem>
>> - </varlistentry>
>
> Btw, this is the only dependency that I hadn't been able to test on windows
> when I was hacking on the CI stuff last. I'm not sure it relly still works.

Do you think that [1] would help in that?

[1]: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/mitkerberos
--
Michael

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