> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 09 December 2005 14:33
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Hiroshi Saito; Magnus Hagander; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-patches
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] CVS of 8.1.x MS-VC6 probrem.
>
> "Dave Page" <[email protected]> writes:
> > As one of the people who has had the joy of maintaining this in the
> > past, I wanted to drop it as you may remember but that was
> rejected on
> > the basis that someone somewhere might want to use their
> own VC++ build
> > over our precompiled versions for some reason.
>
> > Now that there is a project on pgFoundry allowing builds of
> the entire
> > server using VC++, perhaps we should rethink that decision?
>
> I recall wanting to drop it too. Wasn't the argument about
> whether the
> libpq.dll we produce would work nicely in a VC++ project? If it does,
> then I'm willing to push the problem off to the pgFoundry project.
It works perfectly well - pgAdmin is built with VC++ on windows for
example, as is psqlODBC.
> (Of course that would be a change for 8.2, not something we
> should drop
> in existing branches.)
Goes without saying doesn't it? :-)
Regards, Dave
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