Re: [HACKERS] About pgevent

2004-07-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
If pgevent is a DLL, why is it in src/bin? We cannot have binary files like MSG1.bin in our source tree, no matter how convenient it is. The distributors are going to kill us for that. Please find another way. The discussion back when it was decided weighted things back and forth. The

Re: [HACKERS] About pgevent

2004-07-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Magnus Hagander wrote: The discussion back when it was decided weighted things back and forth. The main thing is that we'd include an extra build dependency for win32, which would be the Microsoft toolkit, several hundred Mb to download just to build a 32 byte file. Think about what open

Re: [HACKERS] About pgevent

2004-07-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
The discussion back when it was decided weighted things back and forth. The main thing is that we'd include an extra build dependency for win32, which would be the Microsoft toolkit, several hundred Mb to download just to build a 32 byte file. Think about what open source means. It doesn't

Re: [HACKERS] About pgevent

2004-07-31 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Think about what open source means. It doesn't mean that we give our users binary blobs compiled on some guy's machine, because it's too inconvenient to obtain the build tools. If it's too inconvenient to obtain build tools, you use a binary