Re: Suggestion for MSVC build - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Suggestion for MSVC build
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Msg-id 46F968BE.70203@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Suggestion for MSVC build  ("Chuck McDevitt" <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>)
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Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>>> Many of us would like to see libedit ported to Windows too ;-)
>>>       
>> Yeah, it's on my (insanely long) TODO to look at sometime :-)
>>
>> //Magnus
>>     
>
> I've thought about working on a libedit port myself, but I don't see how
> that would help PostgreSQL unless the PostgreSQL community would be
> willing to include the libedit code into our source tree
> (pgsql/src/port/? ).
>
> Otherwise it would just be downloadable from some obscure place that
> most people won't find or trust.
>   


It would mean that the distributed Windows binaries would be free of 
GPLed code.

Most people don't actually build from source. I especially suspect that 
very few people build on Windows.

cheers

andrew


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