On Fri, 3 May 2002, Travis Hoyt wrote:
> Will there really be a need for a BeOS development with the sale of Be to
> Palm? Is BeOS even still available? It might not be worth the time to
> develop for BeOS until you see what Palm decides to do with the software.
Note that the changes I'm making are to make use of what is available
through the libapr API that the Apache group has developed ... so, as long
as they have the hooks in for BeOS, we will ... doesn't mean PgSQL will
actually have makefiles for, and will compile under it, unless someone
*with* BeOS steps forward, but alot of the core functionality that has
held back native ports should work ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:48 AM
> To: mlw
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, mlw wrote:
>
> > "Marc G. Fournier" wrote:
> > >
> > > Morning all ...
> > >
> > > Just a heads up that over the next little while, I'm planning
> on
> > > making a bunch of commits in order to work on making the code able to
> work
> > > natively in the above environments ... my work will mostly focus on
> Win32
> > > (since I have no OS2/BeOS installs), but alot of the changes will be
> such
> > > that it will benefit the others as well ...
> > >
> > > The initial changes will be to just wrapper all our shared
> memory
> > > code, so that I can make use of Apache's libapr libraries *if* they
> are
> > > installed ... if not, it will just fall back to "the current code" ...
> >
> > If you want any assistance, drop me an email. I spent a long time (>
> decade)
> > doing Windows applications and drivers and know a good number of the
> cool
> > tricks.
>
> hrmmmm ... do you have a working Windows development environment? I'm
> running WinXP at home, but don't have any of the compilers or anything
> yet, so all my work for the first part is going to be done under Unix ...
>
> but someone that knows something about building makefiles for Windows, and
> compiling under it, will definitely be a major asset ;)
>
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