Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Yes, it was vague.  The question is now that we are a month away, do
> > we
> > > want to target June 1, mid-June, or July 1.
> >
> > If I may humbly chime in here...there currently is no binary packing for
> > the win32 port.  Magnus is currently working on an installer/service
> > manager (dubbed 'longer term' on the status page) that would be nice to
> > see make it in before the feature freeze.  Based on the current rate of
> > development, finishing this and various other sundry issues (even
> > allowing for corrections within the beta period) within a month involves
> > a fair degree of optimism.  In short, speaking strictly from a win32
> > perspective, a June 1 date will probably be missed.
>
> Well, if Win32 doesn't complete by June 1, do we still do the feature
> freeze?  I don't want to be adding features after the freeze, that is
> for sure.  When we have done that in the past, it has caused problems
> because some stuff gets in to make the system unstable, but other stuff
> gets left out.

That is something that should be discussed a couple of days before June
1st, when we have a clearer idea of just how far off Win32 will be ...
right now, if Win32 is *that* far off the June 1st mark, I'd say
definitely to a feature freeze, as much as I'd like to see the Win32
features in ...

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