Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Here is a summary of the responses to my Win32 roadmap.  I hope this
will allow further discussion.

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INSTALLER
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Cygwin Setup.exe                        http://cygwin.com
Nullsoft                                http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/

GUI
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pgAdmin2                                http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1
pgaccess                                http://pgaccess.org/
Java admin (to be written)
Dev-C++ admin (to be written)           http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/

BINARY
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FORK()

cygwin fork()                           http://cygwin.com
CreateProcess() and copy global area

THREADING

Posix threads
Gnu pth                                 http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
ST                                      http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/docs/st.html
(single-session multi-threading possible)
(Posix AIO is possible)

IPC

Cygwin                                  http://cygwin.com
MinGW                                   http://www.mingw.org/
ACE                                     http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
APR                                     http://apr.apache.org/
Our own

ENVIRONMENT

Cygwin                                  http://cygwin.com
UnxUtils                                http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Write own initdb


IMPLEMENTATIONS
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PostgreSQLe                             http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA023283/PostgreSQLe.html
Dbexperts                               http://www.dbexperts.net/postgresql
Connx                                   http://www.connx.com/
gborg                                   http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/winpackage/projdisplay.php
Interbase                               http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,23217,00.html

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