On 01/23/2013 01:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Tom Lane escribió:
Alexander Law <exclus...@gmail.com> writes:
Please let me know if I can do something to get the bug fix
(https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=902) committed.
It's waiting on some Windows-savvy committer to pick it up, IMO.
(FWIW, I have no objection to the patch as given, but I am unqualified
to evaluate how sane it is on Windows.)
I think part of the problem is that we no longer have many Windows-savvy
committers willing to spend time on Windows-specific patches; there are,
of course, people with enough knowledge, but they don't always
necessarily have much interest. Note that I added Magnus and Andrew to
this thread because they are known to have contributed Windows-specific
improvements, but they have yet to followup on this thread *at all*.
I remember back when Windows support was added, one of the arguments in
its favor was "it's going to attract lots of new developers". Yeah, right.
I'm about to take a look at this one.
Note BTW that Craig Ringer has recently done some excellent work on
Windows, and there are several other active non-committers (e.g. Noah)
who comment on Windows too.
IIRC I never expected us to get a huge influx of developers from the
Windows world. What I did expect was a lot of new users, and I think we
have on fact got that.
cheers
andrew
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