Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

Greg Landrum wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 12:45 AM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: [email protected]
>>>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>>>Of Greg Landrum
>>>Sent: 08 April 2005 01:35
>>>To: Dave Page
>>>Cc: [email protected]
>>>Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available
>>>
>>>On Apr 6, 2005 3:29 AM, Dave Page <[email protected]> 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

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