Re: [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted

Brian Bruns wrote:

>Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway.  They just all 
>download the binary a guy (usually literally "one guy") built.  So, let's 
>just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be 
>all set. </tougue in cheek>
>  
>

Correct.
I wonder why we need a Windows port. I think it is more pain than sense.
In case of Windows I'd rely on a binary distribution and a piece of 
documentation telling how the source can be built. I don't expect many 
people to do it. Usually Open Source guys run *NIX

>Sorry, couldn't help myself...Seriously, it's a cultural thing, I wouldn't 
>plan on a mighty hoard of windows database developers who are put off by 
>loading cygwin.  I do wonder what the requirements are for building 
>commercial db's that run on unix and windows.  I imagine they are 
>similarly off-putting if it were an option.
>  
>

In case of SAP DB they use a tool kit for building

http://www.sapdb.org/develop/sap_db_development.htm

It is truly painful to build it - even on UNIX (I haven't tried on 
Windows and I won't try in the future).
As far as I have seen it throughs millions of compiler warnings.
   Regards,       Hans

-- 
*Cybertec Geschwinde u Schoenig*
Ludo-Hartmannplatz 1/14, A-1160 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43/1/913 68 09; +43/664/233 90 75
www.postgresql.at <http://www.postgresql.at>, cluster.postgresql.at 
<http://cluster.postgresql.at>, www.cybertec.at 
<http://www.cybertec.at>, kernel.cybertec.at <http://kernel.cybertec.at>