Magnus Hagander wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to suggest that we retire some of the old Visual C++ build > infrastructure. Specifically, all the makefiles for VC++ 6.0 *except* libpq. > > There is a point for keeping libpq - if you want to build a static > version, it's easier if you can use the same version. And it's also > required if you want to be able to use the PQtrace function. Therefor, I > suggest that we keep both the VC++ and Borland makefiles for libpq > (since we do seem to have someone touching the Borland stuff every now > and then we can keep it, but I wouldn't consider it "properly > maintained" :-P) > > > The argument for removing the rest of the support is that it will get us > away from having to maintain it :-) The build files can be generated > automatically for Visual C++ 2005 using the new code (and you can build > just the frontend part sif you want to), which is available as a free > download from MS. > > Anybody think we need to keep those around?
Agreed on removal of non-libpq *.mak files. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
