Dave Page wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 19 June 2004 22:49 > > To: Dave Page > > Cc: Magnus Hagander; Bruce Momjian; Laurent Ballester; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PATCHES] eventlog fix > > > > Hm, that is a lot ... but wouldn't the sort of people > > interested in hacking PG on Windows likely already have it? > > > > If you think not, I'll withdraw my objection to keeping the > > .BIN in CVS, but I'm just wondering whether we're worrying > > about something that hackers would have anyway. > > I have mc.exe, but only because I have paid for Visual Studio. I don't > have the platform SDK installed, however I cannot honestly say whether > or not I would have it if I didn't have VS. I would include the file in > CVS if it were my choice - it's clearly a pain to download the compiler > if you don't have it, and the file is unlikely to need updating in the > future - it was designed to be a generic DLL that just formats any > message as '%s'.
Agreed. We have to include the .bin file because if we don't, we would have an additional Win32 depenency beyond Mingw. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
