On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:51:03PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Yeah, very long ago. A quick search of our archives shows that the number
> of mentions of Borland pretty much fell off a cliff after 2009 (excluding
> the repeated conversations about dropping support, that is). I found one
> report suggesting that it was already broken in 2012:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/AD61A3A7C80949178643FE5D2811C35F%40LynnPC
>
> It seems pretty safe to say that nobody's using this build method
> anymore. As best I can tell from perusing the archives, the reason
> we used to expend a lot of sweat on it was that there was a freely
> available version of Borland C and none of MSVC. But that stopped
> being true a long time ago, so there's not much reason to concern
> ourselves with it anymore.
Agreed, I was just pointing out why it remained so long.
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