Re: PostgreSQL Portable Runtime (was Re: [GENERAL] Future of PostgreSQL)

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Robert wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  one of the important factors that contributed to the popularity and success of
> Apache, Perl, Tcl/Tk etc. was their platform independence. I'm big fan of Unix (and
> even bigger of Postgres ;-), but BeOS, MacOS X, even Win2000 all look quite
> interesting too and I don't want to tie myself to just one platform.

MacOS X has a Unix core ( Mach 3.0 + FreeBSD ).  a few people are looking
into a port to MacOS X DP2 (Developer Preview, heavily NDA'ed), but
they're not sure if the guts are 'feature frozen' yet.  MacOS X CR1
(Customer Release) supposidly ships ~feb 2k.  id expect that the port
would be relatively painless, but i'm not 100% positive.  Mach would be
The Big Hurdle (no pun intended) in getting pgsql to work right on the
MacOS X/OS X Server platform.

David Wetzel ( www.turbocat.de ) has a working EOAdaptor for MacOS X
Server, OPENSTEP/Mach, and OPENSTEP/NT.  ive been using it for quite a few
internal projects under MacOS X Server.  works great.

> [SNIP]

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