> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Mayo [mailto:ajmayo@my-deja.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:28 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Native Win32 port - PLEASE!
>
>
> PLEASE .... can we have the native Win32 port SOON.
>
> It will totally and utterly hurt Microsoft in a very
> important area to have this port. Why?
>
> Well, many of you will know that MS give away a cut-down
> version of SQL Server (MSDE) and this is bundled with a *lot*
> of Win32 apps.
>
> Now, MSDE is pretty good, though it is a nightmare to
> upgrade, for various reasons - but there are fishhooks in the
> license agreement that worry a lot of people - particularly,
> a clause about replication that could be interpreted in ways
> that would suddenly require users to pay MS large wads of cash.
>
> And MSDE is deliberately crippled; five concurrent users, max
> 2G database size.
"Hurry because it will hurt someone." is a silly reason to push for
something.
Far better is "Hurry because it will benefit someone."
IMO-YMMV.
> Many vendors (including the one I work for) would be very
> very very interested in looking at PostgreSQL as an
> alternative BUT it NEEDS to run natively on Windows (not via Cygwin)
>
> If it did, I can see real inroads being made into 'mindspace'
> here and a huge increase in PostgreSQL usage - it would
> become ubiquitous as a 21st century database - and porting to
> Win32 therefore helps, not hinders, the open source movement.
>
> So can I quietly beg the Win32 group to expedite this port. I
> believe you will be utterly astonished at the demand. Please.....
It's already almost there. Since it is an open source project, you can
always help if you want.
You can download it and build it yourself with Mingw if you want to play
with what is available now.
