Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On 5/2/10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If we take seriously the proposition that we're still supporting 8.2
>> on Windows, we probably ought to do something about that. If we don't,
>> we need to officially deprecate that version.
> That's the last non-msvc++ version. Personally I'd love to drop it so
> i can get rid of mingw/msys and move entirely to vc++ for Win32 and
> Win64.
> I'm not so sure it's fair to the users though.
Well, we did promise that Windows 8.2 would have the same lifespan as
8.2 on other platforms:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865
The planned EOL is only a year and a half away anyway. OTOH, if it's
doubling your effort to build Windows binary distributions, maybe
it's not worth continuing to support it.
regards, tom lane
