Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?
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Msg-id 541D893F.30202@dunslane.net
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In response to Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 09/20/2014 09:24 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the moment there's some rememnants of support for borland CC. I don't
> believe it's likely that any of it still works. I can't remember ever
> seing a buildfarm animal running it either - not surprising it's ~15
> years since the last release.
> Since there's both msvc and mingw support for windows builds - borlands
> only platform - I see little point in continuing to support it.
>
> The reason I'm wondering is that the atomics patch cargo cults forward
> some stuff specific to borland and I'd rather not do that. And I'd
> rather be explicit about stopping to do so than slyly doing it.
>

I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client 
libraries for use with things like Delphi.

It might be worth casting the net a little wider to find out if it still 
has any users.

cheers

andrew




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