Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> I thought the consensus of the discussion was that this was not
> >>> necessary. It sure doesn't strike me as a good idea.
>
> > Also, keep in mind that in the end most folks will be building under
> > MinGW using a release tarball, that has those output files. We haven't
> > gotten a MinGW release yet, so they have to build all the stuff.
>
> Well, that's a fair argument, but why don't you get Marc to set up
> nightly snapshots for the WIN32_DEV branch? That only costs cycles
> in the short term. Polluting CVS with updates to derived files will
> cost us CVS storage forever.
Hmm, another problem is that I don't think there is a flex port for
MinGW --- at least I remember someone saying they found bison, but not
flex, so if they grab the snapshot, they will not be able to use CVS to
do development and diffs.
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