Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On 5/2/10, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If we take seriously the proposition that we're still supporting 8.2
>> on Windows, we probably ought to do something about that.  If we don't,
>> we need to officially deprecate that version.

> That's the last non-msvc++ version. Personally I'd love to drop it so
> i can get rid of mingw/msys and move entirely to vc++ for Win32 and
> Win64.

> I'm not so sure it's fair to the users though.

Well, we did promise that Windows 8.2 would have the same lifespan as
8.2 on other platforms:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865

The planned EOL is only a year and a half away anyway.  OTOH, if it's
doubling your effort to build Windows binary distributions, maybe
it's not worth continuing to support it.

                        regards, tom lane

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