On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Yes, from the backend-developer's perspective. But not from the >>> extension-developer's perspective :-) And seriously, make is one of >>> those things that is supremely capable of doing lots of stuff, but is so >>> difficult to use correctly that everyone keeps reinventing newer wheels. >>> Seems this one isn't round enough. >> >> Not to mention the fact that make doesn't work on Windows, so any >> extensions that rely on this will need hacks in the MSVC build system. > > Fair enough, so that's just me not seeing it. Now I agree that having > the right hand side of the format I proposed be an ordered list of files > rather than a single file is simple enough and comes with benefits. > > The examples are using spaces as the separator, how friendly is that to > our windows users? Maybe using coma instead would be better?
Comma would be better. There is even some backend code that will tokenize on it, I think. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
