Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I vote for just using sed considering we need flex and bison anyway.

> OK cool, we could go with something else than sed to generate probes.h
> but that seems sensible considering that this should definitely be
> back-patched. Not sure what the others think about adding a new file
> in the source tarball by default though.

AFAIK, sed flex and bison originate from three separate source projects;
there is no reason to suppose that the presence of flex and bison on a
particular system guarantee the presence of sed.  I thought the proposal
to get rid of the psed dependence in favor of some more perl code was
pretty sane.
        regards, tom lane