Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
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Msg-id 20230410222738.57fdxwdrdhwatnr4@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Hi,

On 2023-04-10 19:55:35 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Projects other than the EDB installers use the MSVC build system - e.g.
> pgAdmin uses it’s own builds of libpq and other tools (psql, pg_dump etc)
> that are pretty heavily baked into a fully automated build system (even the
> build servers and all their requirements are baked into Ansible).
> 
> Changing that lot would be non-trivial, though certainly possible, and I
> suspect we’re not the only ones doing that sort of thing.

Do you have a link to the code for that, if it's open? Just to get an
impression for how hard it'd be to switch over?

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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