On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote: > Please let the Windows thread die now. PGAN doesn't ignore Windows; it > ignores installer development. >
yeah, I think there are two quite separable projects here. It's quite possible that once the binary installer people have a source package with all the meta data and computer-readable build instructions that PGAN will need that they'll be able to implement support for binary pre-built modules as well. But just tackling the source package problem solves a lot of the problems already. The binary installer people will have their own set of problems to solve as well, they'll have to deal with environment dependencies such as OS versions, external binary versions, privileges, etc. These are all additional problems on top of having a source package already. To make an analogy configure and make are still useful even after you have dpkg -- you still need to be able to build the individual source package first before you get to put it into a binary package. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers