On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:01, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > Dave, Lamar and Katie can cheer now 'cuze this is the last comment > I'm going to make on this. All others will be ignored, probably. > > The one thing I haven't seen from Dave, Lamar or Katie on this is > reputation. You're all for the PostgreSQL name going on it but I > have yet to see any of you so sure of yourselves that you'd put > your own name on it. The license allows it. Red Hat did it. I > see no "PageSQL" or "KatieSQL" or even an "Oh-Win SQL" being offered > up. Yet all three of you are advocating that the PostgreSQL stamp > of approval should be immediately placed on it (ok, Lamar may not > be as in favor as the Dave and Katie). >
Oh-win SQL! Man that was great :-) If only all of your posts were so witty... > Without documented testing and sufficient warnings until enough > history is banked, I don't think a native windows port should be > given any kind of seal of approval. After that, what about keeping > the code current? In a year or so will it suffer from bit-rot and > be the source of complaints? Are there going to be security concerns > surrounding it? Is there going to be a bunch of scrambling going on > to put out a patch when the latest active-x bug hoses the data dir? > We already support postgresql on cygwin, and we know that's crap. Having a native emulation can only improve that situation, so I don't see any reason not to move in that direction. All of this "stamp of approval" talk is really pointless at this juncture; no matter how much testing has been done, none of it means a lick until the code is integrated into the 7.4 branch. In the mean time, if some of the unix oriented guys want to devise a suggested test plan that can be used to determine if we are going to call the native windows support "production grade" or merely a vast improvement over the cygwin developers version, well I bet the windows folks would appreciate that. Even more so if someone runs those tests against a linux box so that we have actual statistics to compare against. Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
