On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 at 18:34, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 12:56 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 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. > > > > Oh ... that's a good point. Is there anyone besides EDB shipping > > MSVC-built executables? Would it even be practical to switch to > > meson with a month-or-so notice? Seems kind of tight, and it's > > not like the packagers volunteered to make this switch. > > I can't really speak to those questions with confidence. > > Perhaps instead of telling pgsql-packagers what we're doing, we could > instead ask them if it would work for them if we did XYZ. Then we > could use that information to inform our decision-making. Projects other than the EDB installers use the MSVC build system - e.g. pgAdmin uses it’s own builds of libpq and other tools (psql, pg_dump etc) that are pretty heavily baked into a fully automated build system (even the build servers and all their requirements are baked into Ansible). Changing that lot would be non-trivial, though certainly possible, and I suspect we’re not the only ones doing that sort of thing. -- -- Dave Page https://pgsnake.blogspot.com EDB Postgres https://www.enterprisedb.com
