On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:30 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I guess I'd vote for pulling the trigger in v16 if we can get that > done by the end of April. Once we're close to beta I think it > must wait for v17 to open.
I think that sounds reasonable. It would be to the project's advantage not to have to maintain three build systems for an extra year, but we can't still be whacking things around right up until the moment we expect to ship a beta. However, if this is the direction we're going, we probably need to give pgsql-packagers a heads up ASAP, because anybody who is still relying on the MSVC system to build Windows binaries is presumably going to need some time to adjust. If we rip out the build system somebody is using a couple of weeks before beta, that might make it difficult for that person to get the beta out promptly. And I think there's probably more than just EDB who would be in that situation. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com