Re: PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> > Some time ago there was a guy from Novell posting on hackers about the
> > porting of PostgreSQL to Netware.  He sounded like most of the job was
> > already done, but he wanted to have some patches accepted to be able to
> > build with a toolchain different from GNU make and friends (because it
> > was one or two orders of magnitude faster).  He left some time later
> > because of the null support he received for that, it seems.
> 
> What is this, a troll?  We gave that project quite a lot of support.
> My recollection is that we lost interest somewhere around here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-08/msg00278.php
> when it became clear that Netware couldn't or wouldn't try to arrange
> their code to keep the amount of platform-specific stuff reasonable.
> The patch as they were proposing it would have been completely
> unmaintainable --- certainly so for the community, probably for them
> too.

Last I remember they were going to port gmake to Novell and use that for
the port,but we never heard back from them.

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