Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-29 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:47 AM > To: Peter Eisentraut > Cc: Justin Clift; Hannu Krosing; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; > Postgres development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches su

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-29 Thread Jan Wieck
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Justin Clift writes: > > > The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with > > Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed > > there), > > You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever > compiler can

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Justin Clift
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Justin Clift writes: The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed there), You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever compiler can also be used with a m

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Justin Clift writes: > The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with > Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed > there), You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever compiler can also be used with a makefile-driven build

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > I do have a problem with MKS toolkit, which is a commerical purchase. > I would like to avoid reliance on that, though Jan said he needed their > bash. I don't believe that quite yet. Jan said the regression test script crashes Cygwin's bash, but how come it has never cra

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Justin Clift
Justin Clift wrote: Since March 2002 (less than 1 year ago), it's been downloaded about 120,000,000 times. Wow. 120 Million downloads in less than 1 year. That's a pretty popular IDE (16th most popular project on SourceForge) Arrrgh. Thought that sounded a bit too high. Wrong column, i

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hannu Krosing wrote: Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 26.01.2003 kell 05:07: Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't see a strong reason not to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well req

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-26 Thread Hannu Krosing
Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 26.01.2003 kell 05:07: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't see a strong reason not > > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see a strong reason not > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > > shell environment. > > Indeed. I think the

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: > We focused on porting the programs. The goal was to have PostgreSQL > running native on Win32 for a user. Having a nice and easy maintainable > cross platform config, build and test environment for the developers is > definitely something that still needs to be done (hint, hint

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 02:01, Dann Corbit wrote: > Maybe because most of the machines in the world (by a titanic landslide) > are Windoze boxes. On the desktop, yes. On the server, no. PostgreSQL is nore intended for a server, no? I can see the utility in having a development installatio

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:54 PM > To: Brian Bruns; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > > > Brian Bruns wrote: > > >P

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally "one guy") built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. Correct. I wonder why we need a Windows port

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Bruns
sentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jan Wieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Postgres development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:40 PM > Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > > > > Jan Wieck wr

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > "Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > > e

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > existing windows-only develope

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Al Sutton wrote: > I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the > code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more > unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract > existing windows-only develope

Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Al Sutton
gres development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted > Jan Wieck writes: > > > I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the > > patches mailing list. > &

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see a strong reason not > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > > shell environment. > > Indeed. I think t

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't see a strong reason not > to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full > shell environment. Indeed. I think the goal here is to have a port th

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan Wieck writes: > I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the > patches mailing list. I'm concerned that you are adding all these *.dsp files for build process control. This is going to be a burden to maintain. Everytime someone changes an aspect of how a file is b