On 07/12/2018 18:34, Andres Freund wrote: >> But I think that we realistically could generate ninja files using some >> Perl code not unlike the one that does the catalog .dat to .bki >> transformation. Just a thought at this point. > That seems not great, because we would lose the ability to generate mscv > files from the same source. Or whatever the eventual replacement of ninja > will be.
We already generate msvc files using custom Perl code. Right now we generated them by parsing makefiles in a hackish way. If we were to change that to parsing a well-structured ".dat" file, that seems entirely doable and wouldn't be worse than what we do now, I think. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
