Re: Remove win32ver.rc from version_stamp.pl
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-03-01T22:51:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > This removes another relic from the old nmake-based Windows build. > version_stamp.pl put version number information into win32ver.rc. But > win32ver.rc already gets other version number information from the > preprocessor at build time, so it would make more sense if all version > number information would be handled in the same way and we don't have > two places that do it. This has a minor conflict in Solution.pm according to the cfbot. In general, while I'm on board with the idea, I wonder whether it wouldn't be smarter to keep on defining PG_MAJORVERSION as a string, and just add PG_MAJORVERSION_NUM alongside of it. This would eliminate some hunks from the patch in places where it's more convenient to have the version as a string, and it would avoid what could otherwise be a pretty painful cross-version incompatibility for extensions. We already provide PG_VERSION in both forms, so I don't see any inconsistency in doing likewise for PG_MAJORVERSION. regards, tom lane
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Remove win32ver.rc from version_stamp.pl
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