On 01/03/2011 01:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
It might be reasonable to argue that this particular patch is too invasive to be safe to back-patch, but I don't agree with the premise that it isn't a reasonable topic for a back-patch.
The patch for the non-buildsystem code is one line. The rest is about 20 lines.
I do have some concern about loss of buildfarm coverage for older VS versions, but if Andrew isn't going to cover those, perhaps someone else will step up for that.
The machine involved already has three buildfarm critters. If I have to have three versions of VS installed (since we're now talking about installing a new one) that will grow to five, on one VM currently running on a small not very powerful Athlon X2 machine. It's already a pain in the neck to manage. Some time in the future I might have resources to run more, but right now I do not.
Incidentally, I just went looking for VS2005/Express on microsoft.com. I don't know if they still make it available, but if they do it's fairly well hidden. I could find VS2008/Express and VS2010/Express very easily. ISTM that having support on the live branches for the compilers/SDKs that Microsoft apparently actually supports and distributes is not a bad thing to have.
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