Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think these two justify declaring the Windows port at EOL prior to > 8.2. The others probably not so much. (Who cares if pg_regress is not a > C program? Who besides developers uses it?)
The reason to care about it is that the lack of it guarantees the port will be poorly tested. > I hope this will be a one-off exercise, though. Certainly. We knew going into it that the Windows port would have teething pains, and so it did. The 8.0 release was effectively a beta as far as native Windows was concerned (and was stated to be such). Dropping 8.1 is a bit more debatable ... but ultimately it comes down to who is willing to do back-porting effort for Windows-specific bug fixes, given that the code base has changed so much. The core team have agreed that *we* are not going to do that. If someone else wants to step up, they're welcome to do so. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly