On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> > One thing I noticed - in MSVC, the config parameter "krb5" (equivalent of
> > the removed --with-krb5) enabled *both* krb5 and gssapi, and there is no
> > separate config parameter for gssapi. Do we want to rename that one to
> > "gss", or do we want to keep it as "krb5"? Renaming it would break
> > otherwise working environments, but it's kind of weird to leave it...
>
> +1 for renaming --- anybody who's building with "krb5" and expecting to,
> you know, actually *get* krb5 would probably rather find out about this
> change at build time instead of down the road a ways.
>
> A compromise position would be to introduce a gss parameter while leaving
> krb5 in place as a deprecated (perhaps undocumented?) synonym for it.
> But I think that's basically confusing.
>

Yeah, I'm not sure it actually helps much.


Andrew - is this going to cause any issues wrt the buildfarm, by any chance?

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