On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote:
> This whole bit about Windows is a red herring. Perhaps I should not have > phrased it the way I did WRT Windows. So I'm going to change it to: > >> The PGAN client will make no other assumptions about how to build and >> install extensions, leaving such to the PostgreSQL core. To the extent that >> PGXS-powered `make` works on a given platform, the client will support it. > > Discussing it with Andrew, that means it should work if you have mingw, and > we might have to tweak it a bit to work with `src/tools/msvc`. > > So the point is: the PGAN client (which is just one part of this project, > after all), will *not* include a build system. It will use whatever build > system is supported by the community. Right now that's PGXS. If core switches > to something later, or provides binary builds for Windows, the client will be > easily adapted to take advantage of it. No sweat. > > The upshot is this: PGAN does *not* ignore Windows or any other platform. > Rather, it relies on others to create the appropriate community-supported > installers for all platforms. The issue of build systems and installers is > not within its domain. Thus, I've also changed the FAQ to: If that is the goal of your project then I withdraw my previous comments, which were written on the belief that you were proposing a generic distribution/build/installation system for PostgreSQL users. Sorry for the noise! -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
