Dave Huber <DHuber@letourneautechnologies.com> writes:
> I have recently installed MS VC++ 2008 Express Edition for a project
> that interfaces with PostgreSQL. I really liked that it had tools for
> creating the solution and projects under VC++. However, the perl
> scripts create solution and project files for VC++ 2005. This causes
> the build to fail if you have 2008 installed since the projects need
> to be updated before they can be built with vcbuild.
Count on Microsoft to arbitrarily break their customers' code :-(
> 2. Can I submit my scripts and have the msvc tools reviewed/updated?
I believe the current Windows binaries are still being built with 2005,
so unless you can change it in a backwards-compatible fashion, the odds
of the patch getting rejected are pretty high. But you can try. This
is the wrong list for submitting patches, however --- send to
pgsql-hackers.
regards, tom lane
