Hey Andrew On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > Windows came late to the buildfarm. According to the CVS log, the buildfarm > client was first checked in in Sept 2004, got initial Mingw support in Jan > 2005 and MSVC support in March 2007, when we finally got some of the tools > sorted out.
Right - but the buildfarm isn't a feature being offered to end users. > I have long spoken against making Windows a second class citizen. But I > don't think David is going to do that (and I'll hound him if he does). But > that doesn't mean it has to be fully supported from day one. I'm not saying it should be supported from day 1, but I think the initial plan will make it very difficult to add Windows support later without a great deal of rewriting/redesign. It's lack of forward planning I was objecting to. > Personally, I'd like to see us with a build service for such modules (c.f. > OpenSuse's build service). +1 -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
