Re: Discontent with development process (was:Re: pgaccess - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Discontent with development process (was:Re: pgaccess
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Msg-id 20020514011112.H75064-100000@mail1.hub.org
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In response to Discontent with development process (was:Re: pgaccess - the discussion is over)  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Lamar Owen wrote:

> But understand that those who don't need the functionality are likely not not
> be thrilled by changes to a currently stable codebase.  Although this config
> file stuff is small potatoes compared to the Win32 stuff as recently
> discussed.  And for that, please understand that most of the developers here
> consider Win32 an inferior server platform.  In fact, Win32 _is_ an inferior
> server platform, at least in my opinion.  But, if you want to do the work,
> and it doesn't break my non-Win32 server build, by all means go for it.

Actually, even for those that wuldn't need the patch ... as long as the
"default behaviour" doesn't change, and unless there are no valid
technical arguments around it, there is no reason why a patch shouldn't be
included ...



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