Hi, On 2021-12-09 16:10:39 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > FWIW, my Windows 10 VM, that I got from Microsoft a couple of years > ago, does not ship it in this location, simply, even after updates.
That is odd - MS says it's available in all types of windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/team-blog/2017/20171219-tar-and-curl-come-to-windows > And I am pretty sure that you cannot assume that this will exist at > this location for all the Windows environments we still support the > compilation of PG. I don't think we need to. I think it's important to optimize the long-term effort (i.e. everyone using git needing to set TAR) => having a default that works going forward is important. Needing to configure tar on old windows installations (when running tap tests), isn't a comparable long-term effort. > My thing runs Visual 2015 that we still support, so, if possible, I'd like > to keep it around a bit more as it is useful to check and test > incompatibilities and/or bug fixes, and it has caught problems in the past. IMO we should just drop support for that. > I got some copies of tar.exe lying around, one from a git installation and a > second one from Msys, but both don't work even if $ENV{TAR} points at them > :/ -- Michael Well, in that case what I'm suggesting doesn't even hurt... Greetings, Andres Freund
