Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I agree that the incremental effort would not be so large, but what
>> makes you think that the situation will change given another year?
> It would also make at least one packager very unhappy as the 8.2
> Windows build is by far the hardest and most time consuming to do and
> I happen to know he's been counting the days until it goes.
Well, if we did extend support for 8.2, we could specifically exclude
Windows. But I'm still unclear on what would really be accomplished
by extending support for it. Sooner or later we have to get people
to migrate up from it, and I see no reason to think that supporting
it for just a year more will change anything.
regards, tom lane
