Re: How much work is a native Windows application? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How much work is a native Windows application?
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Msg-id 29206.1020833367@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How much work is a native Windows application?  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: How much work is a native Windows application?  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It'd be worth trying to understand cygwin issues in detail before we
>> sign up to do and support a native Windows port.

> Actually, there are licensing issues involved ... we could never put a
> 'windows binary' up for anon-ftp, since to distribute it would require the
> cygwin.dll to be distributed, and to do that, there is a licensing cost
> ... of course, I guess we could require ppl to download cygwin seperately,
> install that, then install the binary over top of that ...

<<itch>>  And how much development time are we supposed to expend to
avoid that?

Give me a technical case for avoiding Cygwin, and maybe I can get
excited about it.  I'm not planning to lift a finger on the basis
of licensing though... after all, Windows users are accustomed to
paying for software, no?
        regards, tom lane


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