On 05/15/2018 01:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> If none of the animals
>>>> are configured to detect this bug, perhaps the community needs another
>>>> Windows animal configured along the lines of the build machine I am using?
>>> +1. How do you have yours configured, anyway?
>> I mostly develop on mac and linux and don't look at the windows system
>> too much:
>> Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
>> Service Pack 1
>> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 x64 cross tools
> Hm. I'm not sure what our nominal support range for Visual Studio is.
> I see that mastodon (running VS2005) and currawong (running VS2008)
> haven't reported on HEAD lately, and I think they may have been shut
> down intentionally due to desupport? But if your build still works
> then it seems like we could continue to support VS2008.
>
>
currawong and friends were shut down in January on >= 11 because of the
huge pages issue on 32-bit XP. So they aren't going to be revived. Maybe
we can make VS2008 work on a 64 bit machine. Personally I'm more
interested in better getting coverage for the modern compilers.
cheers
andrew
