Thread: Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

From
"Dave Page"
Date:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf
> Of Greg Landrum
> Sent: 08 April 2005 01:35
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available
>
> On Apr 6, 2005 3:29 AM, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
> > A pgInstaller build of PostgreSQL 8.0.2 beta 1 for Windows
> is available
> > for testing at
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.2beta1/win32/
> >
>
> Does the new installer beta include the extra headers required to do
> backend development on win32 systems or will a source distribution
> still be required there?

Source will be required as this work has not been done yet.

Regards, Dave.

Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

From
Greg Landrum
Date:
On Apr 8, 2005 12:45 AM, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf
> > Of Greg Landrum
> > Sent: 08 April 2005 01:35
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available
> >
> > On Apr 6, 2005 3:29 AM, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
> > > A pgInstaller build of PostgreSQL 8.0.2 beta 1 for Windows
> > is available
> > > for testing at
> > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.2beta1/win32/
> > >
> >
> > Does the new installer beta include the extra headers required to do
> > backend development on win32 systems or will a source distribution
> > still be required there?
>
> Source will be required as this work has not been done yet.

I realize this probably won't get done before the 8.0.2 final release,
so I'm not trying to be pushy, but would it be helpful if someone else
were to do the work to include the files?

If you're interested in the help, I'm could switch over from being the
squeaky wheel to being the one who applies the grease.  :-)

-greg

Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

From
Andreas Pflug
Date:
Greg Landrum wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 12:45 AM, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org
>>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf
>>>Of Greg Landrum
>>>Sent: 08 April 2005 01:35
>>>To: Dave Page
>>>Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
>>>Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available
>>>
>>>On Apr 6, 2005 3:29 AM, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>A pgInstaller build of PostgreSQL 8.0.2 beta 1 for Windows
>>>
>>>is available
>>>
>>>>for testing at
>>>
>>>http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.2beta1/win32/
>>>
>>>Does the new installer beta include the extra headers required to do
>>>backend development on win32 systems or will a source distribution
>>>still be required there?
>>
>>Source will be required as this work has not been done yet.

I wonder if it is really sensible to include all backend includes.
People might think they can easily develop backend modules with any
compiler, which I doubt will be supported thoroughly. Second, somebody
who has mingw installed won't have a problem to unzip those backend
sources too; compiling the backend is a good test if everything's
working as expected.
So I'd suggest to leave backend includes out of the std distribution, or
at least make a distinctively selectable (non-default) package from it.

Regards,
Andreas