Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
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Msg-id CAFj8pRCpxp3OhAWGCitgyEomLn9oyEvRMNyEypXW-Ygp9VCYBg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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2015-05-29 9:42 GMT+02:00 Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>:
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 1. VS requires relatively new MS Windows - problem for people with Ms Win 7
> and older

Really, I use Win 2k8 stuff and Win7 quite a lot.

On Win 7 you have to search and install now unsupported VS EE 2010.

VS Express 2013 requires Win 8. And finding VS 2010 is not simply - I had to take install files from some private sources.


> 2. After installation you have to find and apply some critical fixes - some
> is bad documented.

Example? Perhaps we could improve the docs then.

It was a VS 2010 related issues - not PostgreSQL issues
 

> I have a few customers on MS Win - nobody was able to compile extension
> there - and I had lot of trables - (but I worked with MSVC ten years ago)

Well, FWIW, I have some extensions compiled on Windows using MSVC
modules with stuff like perl -I src/tools/msvc build.pl that are out
of the vanilla scripts and it works... The script is rather simple
even if a bit grotty.

It is not hard for Windows C++ developer, It is little bit messy for Linux developer, and it is out of possibility usual Windows Visual Basic (and similar level) developers.
 
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Michael

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