Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-03 Thread Jan Wieck
Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Friday 31 January 2003 03:21, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Man, I go away for one day, and look what you guys get into. :-) > > No duh. Whew. > > > Lastly, SRA just released _today_ their first Win32 port of PostgreSQL, > > and it is _threaded_: > > > http://osb.sra

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-02 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Justin Clift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 02 February 2003 15:01 > To: Bruce Momjian > Cc: Lamar Owen; PostgreSQL-development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts > > >> Hey, if we make a r

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-02 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: Justin Clift wrote: + Aside from all this, it might be nice to have a few Win32 specific gui pieces in place at the time that PostgreSQL 7.4 Win32 is released. Am sure they'll develop over time, but was thinking we should at least make a good impression with the first re

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Justin Clift wrote: > + Aside from all this, it might be nice to have a few Win32 specific > gui pieces in place at the time that PostgreSQL 7.4 Win32 is released. > Am sure they'll develop over time, but was thinking we should at least > make a good impression with the first release. Hey, if

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jeff Davis wrote: > > As for build environment, we have two audiences --- those using > > binaries, and those compiling from source. Clearly we are going to have > > more binary users vs. source users on Win32 than on any other platform, > > so at this stage I think making thing easier for the maj

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday 31 January 2003 03:21, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Man, I go away for one day, and look what you guys get into. :-) > > No duh. Whew. > > > Lastly, SRA just released _today_ their first Win32 port of PostgreSQL, > > and it is _threaded_: > > > http://osb.sra.co.j

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-02-01 Thread Ian Barwick
On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:26, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday 31 January 2003 03:21, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Man, I go away for one day, and look what you guys get into. :-) > > No duh. Whew. > > > Lastly, SRA just released _today_ their first Win32 port of PostgreSQL, > > and it is _threade

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Justin Clift
Bruce Momjian wrote: So, as far as I am concerned, we will have a Win32 port in 7.4. It will not be perfect, but it will be as good as we can do. We are also getting point-in-time recovery in 7.4, so that may help us with Win32 port failures too. If anyone's interested, the "PostgreSQL 7.3.1

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Jeff Davis
> As for build environment, we have two audiences --- those using > binaries, and those compiling from source. Clearly we are going to have > more binary users vs. source users on Win32 than on any other platform, > so at this stage I think making thing easier for the majority of our > Unix develo

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 31 January 2003 03:21, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Man, I go away for one day, and look what you guys get into. :-) No duh. Whew. > Lastly, SRA just released _today_ their first Win32 port of PostgreSQL, > and it is _threaded_: > http://osb.sra.co.jp/PowerGres/ Is there an English

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:21 AM > To: Lamar Owen > Cc: PostgreSQL-development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts > > > Man, I go away for one day,

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:01, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > Dave, Lamar and Katie can cheer now 'cuze this is the last comment > I'm going to make on this. All others will be ignored, probably. > > The one thing I haven't seen from Dave, Lamar or Katie on this is > reputation. You're all for the Po

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Man, I go away for one day, and look what you guys get into. :-) Let me shoot out some comments on this. First, clearly the Win32 port is going to have more port-specific code paths than any other port, so it is going to require extra testing even if it wasn't our first non-Unix port. You can e

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-30 Thread Vince Vielhaber
Dave, Lamar and Katie can cheer now 'cuze this is the last comment I'm going to make on this. All others will be ignored, probably. The one thing I haven't seen from Dave, Lamar or Katie on this is reputation. You're all for the PostgreSQL name going on it but I have yet to see any of you so su

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 30 January 2003 16:01, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > Dave, Lamar and Katie can cheer now 'cuze this is the last comment > I'm going to make on this. All others will be ignored, probably. > up. Yet all three of you are advocating that the PostgreSQL stamp > of approval should be immediatel

Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System - My final thoughts

2003-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Without documented testing and sufficient warnings until enough > history is banked, I don't think a native windows port should be > given any kind of seal of approval. That was my last point also: we have years of track record on most of our Unix port