> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:44 PM
> To: 'Andrew Dunstan '; 'pgsql-hackers-win32 ';
> 'PostgreSQL-development '
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?
>
>
>
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Claudio Natoli wrote:
> >
> > > * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin
> won't work too
> > > well outside of the MingW environment :-)
> >
> >
> > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
>
> Yes. To be more precise, my point was that doing so will
> require some changes to the code (ie. configure/compile time
> constants like PKGLIBDIR just won't do us any good).
>
>
> > But for now I suggest that the default prefix on Windows is
> > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
More properly:
%ProgramFiles%\PostgreSQL
And then, if they don't like that, let them put it wherever they darn
well please.
> For right now, I'd suggest a directory that doesn't have
> whitespace and localization issues :-P
It will have to be faced. If it cannot handle spaces or funny
characters, it will simply fail.
I may be able to help on the localization and path stuff. We have
solved those issues for our port of 7.1.3, and I expect the work for 7.5
to be extremely similar.
Where can I get the latest tarball for Win32 development?
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